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Dec 21 2018
On 17thDecember the Government published the Aviation Strategy Green Paper, a wide-ranging set of policies addressing all aspects of the aviation sector and its future development for the coming decades. The strategy is out for consultation for 16 weeks (until …
Dec 17 2018
The Government has today set out draft plans for the policy approach to the UK aviation sector over the next few decades. The Aviation Strategy Green Paper is strongly pro-growth and sets out how the Government intends to support both …
Dec 6 2018
In the last of our series of discussion papers on the key environmental questions we want to see addressed by the new Aviation Strategy, AEF sets out the air quality challenges posed by UK aviation. As the UK prepares its …
Nov 16 2018
The UK aviation sector cannot rely on biofuel use to offset emissions growth, new analysis from the Committee on Climate Change suggests in its report on biomass in a low carbon economy, published yesterday. The report considers the limited supply of …
Nov 2 2018
Alongside this week’s Budget Statement, HM Revenue and Customs published a proposal for a UK Carbon Emissions Tax to be implemented if a ‘no-deal’ Brexit results in the UK ceasing to participate in the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS). …
Oct 17 2018
Earlier this month at the Royal Courts of Justice, the Hon. Mr Justice Holgate granted permisson for five judicial reviews of the NPS for Heathrow to be heard in a rolled-up hearing in March 2019. In June, MPs voted in …
Oct 10 2018
The World Health Organisation Regional Office for Europe (WHO Europe) has today published its long-awaited environmental noise guidelines, the first complete update to WHO’s community noise guidelines launched in 1999. Following a comprehensive review of the scientific evidence linking noise …
Sep 28 2018
The Government has promised that by the end of this year it will have laid out proposals to address one of the key policy gaps left by the Heathrow NPS, namely how UK plans to square its growth plans for …
Sep 19 2018
AEF, along with Carbon Market Watch and Transport & Environment, recently wrote to the European Commission to warn against any decision taken to exclude aviation from the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) before details of ICAO’s offsetting scheme (known as …
Sep 10 2018
The CAA’s draft Airspace Modernisation Strategy (AMS) sets out a plan for the use of UK airspace up to 2040. The draft strategy reflects recent developments including the parliamentary approval of a new runway at Heathrow, and Government updates to aircraft …