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Britain aims to take lead on aggressive carbon cuts

Policy experts call for measures to go even further.

Climate policy experts have cautiously welcomed the British government's newly announced plan to make drastic cuts to the country's greenhouse-gas emissions over the next half-century.

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Good to see that the EC eventually starts considering that airlines companies, too, will be based on earth after 2011.

I still have problems to catch the principle of CO2 emmission licenses, though, and I am unable to explain my children how this system will one day reduce kerozene burning, if at all.


I understand the basic problem with fossil fuels is that we pay them way cheaper that the damages they do.

So what about a unified tax on all fossil fuels in Europe? By today kerozene is not taxed, and a tax would be against no airline company in particular… Tomorrow could be too late to be shy.

Posted by: Jean-Marc Bonneville | November 21, 2006 01:33 PM

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