Air Transport

Judgment of the National Green Tribunal regarding plywood factories operating in Yamuna Nagar, Haryana, 27/05/2025

Judgment of the National Green Tribunal, May 27, 2025 in the matter of Sumit Saini Vs Shree Ram Steel Industries & Others. Sumit Saini, resident of village Damla, District Yamuna Nagar, Haryana had sent a letter petition dated May 14, 2022 to the NGT. The application said that around 25 …

EU carbon rule to cost $2.8bn: China

The European Union's plan to charge airlines for their greenhouse gas emissions would rise dramatically to cost Chinese airlines 18 billion yuan ($2.8 billion) a year by 2030, China's civil aviation head said on Monday. China would continue to push the EU to axe the scheme, which has angered countries …

EU 'open' to talks on airlines tax, but won't change law

EU officials said Sunday they will negotiate with international partners angry at what they see as a climate tax on airlines, but refused to change hotly disputed legislation despite fears in Germany. "We have always been open to continuing discussions on the possibility of equivalent measures" outside Europe, Isaac Valero, …

U.N. Aviation Body Says Emissions Proposal By Year-End

The head of the United Nations body that oversees civil aviation said on Friday that his agency still plans to have a proposal on measures to address emissions from aviation by the end of 2012, even as critics push for faster change. "I read the press like anyone. I listen …

U.N. aviation body says emissions proposal by year-end

The head of the United Nations body that oversees civil aviation said on Friday that his agency still plans to have a proposal on measures to address emissions from aviation by the end of 2012, even as critics push for faster change. "I read the press like anyone. I listen …

Land acquisition hindering upgradation of Agartala airport

Agartala: Acquiring of land has come in the way of upgrading Agartala airport into an international airport, Tripura Transport minister Manik Dey said the assembly on Thursday. Replying to a calling attention notice on Upgrading the Agartala airport in the standard of an international airport brought by ruling CPI-M member …

UK starts to issue free CO2 permits to airlines

Britain has allocated less than one percent of the 56.7 million European Union carbon permits it expects to issue this year to airlines taking part in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme, the Department of Energy and Climate Change said on Thursday. Around 4.9 million allowances were issued to just three …

China asks EU to withdraw carbon tax plan

China today asked the European Union to take into considerations the serious concerns of the international community over its carbon emissions tax plan for air and shipping services, warning the 27-nation bloc not to complicate the matter. “China, like many other countries, is firmly opposed to the EU’s unilateral legislation …

UK starts to issue free carbon permits to airlines

Britain has started allocating free European Union carbon permits to airlines taking part in the bloc's emissions trading scheme, the Department of Energy and Climate Change said on Thursday. The airlines were given the EU aviation allowances (EUAAs), because they have completed the required steps to open registry accounts, DECC …

India getting aircraft to track cyclones

NEW DELHI: India is acquiring a weather reconnaissance aircraft in order to ensure better forecasting of cyclones, National Disaster Management Authority vice chairman Shashidhar Reddy said here Tuesday. "India is taking steps to acquire a Hercules C-130J along with an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). With this capability, all countries of …

Royal Jordanian Breaks Ranks to Levy Carbon Tax

The decision by cargo airline comes as a surprise, as the proposed tax comes into existence only in 2013. Adecision by a little-known cargo airline to raise rates, normally a routine affair, could turn out to be one which has implications for the entire industry as well as weighty multilateral …

India, 22 nations to retaliate EU move on carbon tax

New Delhi Faced with European Union’s decision to impose a carbon tax on all flights operating in its skies, India and 22 other countries, including Russia, China and the US, have decided to retaliate with a series of measures which would impose heavy costs on European airlines and plane manufacturers. …

India mulls law to fight EU carbon tax

NEW DELHI: The government is mulling a law to ban Indian airlines from participating in the European Union's stringent carbon tax scheme. India is considering its first retaliatory steps in the wake of 26 key nations' decision - including Russia and China -during a meeting in Moscow on Wednesday to …

India, 22 nations to hit EU back on carbon tax

Will launch series of measures that will cost European airlines and plane makers heavily Faced with the European Union's decision to impose a carbon tax on all flights operating on its skies, India and 22 other countries, including Russia, China and the US, have decided to retaliate with a series …

India, 22 nations to retaliate EU move on carbon tax

Faced with European Union’s decision to impose a carbon tax on all flights operating on its skies, India and 22 other countries, including Russia, China and the US, have decided to retaliate with a series of measures which would impose heavy costs on European airlines and plane manufacturers. A joint …

India threatens trade war over EU tax on airlines

New Delhi: India, China, the United States, Russia, Brazil and 21 other nations have decided to retaliate against the European Union’s decision to collect billions of dollars every year by unilaterally imposing a carbon tax on flights landing in the Eurozone. The retaliatory measures decided include reviewing or abrogating the …

Carriers Have to Pay Emission Fee: EU

Civil aviation ministers from about 20 countries to discuss issue in Moscow this week. The European Union reiterated that it was not going to put on hold its controversial decision to charge airlines taking off and landing in Europe for emissions. India had asked the EU to consider postponing the …

Russia Could Block Airlines From Emission Trading

Russia may prohibit its airlines from carbon emission trading in protest against a European Union law it says is unfair, state carrier Aeroflot said on Monday. A group of nations will gather in Moscow this week to debate possible retaliation to the law, which raises the risk of a trade …

EU’s Fancy Flight Emissions

Twenty-six countries, including India, are meeting in Moscow tomorrow to discuss the EU’s unilateral action to control greenhouse gas emissions from aeroplanes flying over European airspace. Under the scheme that came into effect in January 2012, airlines flying to the EU will have to buy tradable carbon credits as part …

Moscow Air Talks To Debate Measures Against EU: Draft

Nations opposing a European Union law that forces all airlines to pay for their carbon emissions will next week debate an array of counter-measures, a draft agenda seen by Reuters on Friday showed, raising the risk of an aviation trade war. The agenda also refers to the formal dispute procedure …

Countries Seek Retaliation to Europe’s Carbon Tax on Airlines

China, the United States and two dozen other countries are looking at coordinated retaliation — including putting pressure on European airlines and other industries — if Europe tries to enforce a law requiring airlines to pay for their greenhouse gas emissions. The system, the European Union’s boldest initiative on climate …

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