Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2010-07-06-Speech-2-273"
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"One major problem aviation has in reducing CO
emissions is that it has a very limited abatement potential, even though one is here talking of 2% of the man-made emissions ( these are 3% of all emissions given that nature emits 97%). The only areas where it can reduce CO
are through: better technology – the latest are already employed; operational procedures – the price of fuel made sure that they were introduced; Single European Sky – this depends on governments and is a debate which started 40 years ago: the only thing we got last April was a Single Empty Sky with the volcanic ash crisis, an act of God for which airlines have had to foot the bill; and biofuels – unless there is serious government/EU investment, these will never see the light of day in commercial quantities.
The EU airline industry is already in dire straits. What is being suggested in the report does not bode well for a sustainable future for transport, particularly if one intends to guarantee the freedom of movement enshrined in the treaty for those people like the Maltese not having access to an alternative mode of transport to reach the rest of the EU and other parts of the world."@en1
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