MEP Demands Gov’t Action To Clip Airlines’ Wings, As Oxford Report Highlights Climate Impact Of Cheap Flights
17 October 2006 - Ministers must push for the EU to adopt a package of measures to combat flying’s increasing contribution to climate change, a Euro-MP has warned after a team of researchers at Oxford University said the low-cost flight boom must end if we are to prevent the worst impacts of rising global temperatures.
Caroline Lucas, Green Party MEP for South-East England and the European Parliament’s spokesperson on aviation and climate change, said the Government’s unbridled support for the growth of the aviation sector undermined its commitment to tackle climate change.
”Blair already knows what to do: the European Parliament has adopted a package of measures to tackle the aviation sector’s growing contribution to climate change and he must adopt them as soon as possible – and press his EU colleagues and the European Commission to do the same.
“The fact that Blair has refused to back my proposals – even though they received support from many of his party members when they were adopted at the European Parliament – is yet another example of his abject failure to exercise global leadership on stewardship of the environment.”
