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UK think tank urges cigarette style warning labels on polluting forms of transportation to help the public get over its addiction to flying.
The European Commission’s original aviation emissions scheme proposal called for intra-European Union flights to join the trading scheme in 2011 and international flights in 2012. The Commission now urges all airlines to participate in 2011 in a joint effort to fight climate change.
“The European Union is aiming too high with plans to make all airlines flying into and out of the bloc buy pollution permits and it risks a backlash from other regions, the chief executive of British Airways said.”