Essay Question: With reference to the extract assess the effectiveness of using
environmental/green taxes to solve market failure in the airline industry. (25)
Use the following context in your answer:
Cutting Aviation Pollution
Aviation is one of the fastest-growing sources of the greenhouse gas emissions
driving global climate change. In fact, if the entire aviation sector were a country, it
would be one of the top 10 carbon-polluting nations on the planet. Air travel is also
currently the most carbon intensive activity an individual can make. A passenger
taking flight from New York to London and back emits more emissions than an
average person in Paraguay over the course of an entire year. The global aviation
sector needs to get on a sustainable flightpath now, because the climate crisis is not
going away. With aviation emissions left unaddressed, we can expect major storm
clouds ahead.
https://www.worldwildlife.org/initiatives/cutting-aviation-pollution
European Airlines Will Pay Over €5 Billion in Environmental Taxes and ETS
Contributions in 2019
Missed opportunity to dedicate these funds to help industry decarbonise.
By Jennifer Janzen Brussels, 10 July 2019 — Last updated on 30 March 2020
Europe’s biggest airlines will pay more than €5 billion in national environmental taxes
and other payments this year — funds which could have otherwise been dedicated to
support the industry’s decarbonisation efforts.
A4E airlines remain focused on positive solutions with a high potential to lower
emissions levels, investing more than €169 billion in environmentally-friendly
technologies until 2030. This includes the purchase of around 800 fuel-efficient
aircraft, which have already reduced emissions by 24% between 2005 and 2017,2 and
over €1 billion in the set up of innovative partnerships designed to fast-track the
production of sustainable aviation fuels in Europe.
In addition, from 2020 onwards, the UN’s global aviation carbon emissions reduction
scheme, CORSIA, will enable airlines to deliver on the industry’s goal of carbon-
neutral growth by early 2020. As of July 2019, 80 states representing 77% of
international aviation activity have voluntarily signed up to CORSIA — and more than
half of these states are European. CORSIA will result in the mitigation of around 2.5
environmental/green taxes to solve market failure in the airline industry. (25)
Use the following context in your answer:
Cutting Aviation Pollution
Aviation is one of the fastest-growing sources of the greenhouse gas emissions
driving global climate change. In fact, if the entire aviation sector were a country, it
would be one of the top 10 carbon-polluting nations on the planet. Air travel is also
currently the most carbon intensive activity an individual can make. A passenger
taking flight from New York to London and back emits more emissions than an
average person in Paraguay over the course of an entire year. The global aviation
sector needs to get on a sustainable flightpath now, because the climate crisis is not
going away. With aviation emissions left unaddressed, we can expect major storm
clouds ahead.
https://www.worldwildlife.org/initiatives/cutting-aviation-pollution
European Airlines Will Pay Over €5 Billion in Environmental Taxes and ETS
Contributions in 2019
Missed opportunity to dedicate these funds to help industry decarbonise.
By Jennifer Janzen Brussels, 10 July 2019 — Last updated on 30 March 2020
Europe’s biggest airlines will pay more than €5 billion in national environmental taxes
and other payments this year — funds which could have otherwise been dedicated to
support the industry’s decarbonisation efforts.
A4E airlines remain focused on positive solutions with a high potential to lower
emissions levels, investing more than €169 billion in environmentally-friendly
technologies until 2030. This includes the purchase of around 800 fuel-efficient
aircraft, which have already reduced emissions by 24% between 2005 and 2017,2 and
over €1 billion in the set up of innovative partnerships designed to fast-track the
production of sustainable aviation fuels in Europe.
In addition, from 2020 onwards, the UN’s global aviation carbon emissions reduction
scheme, CORSIA, will enable airlines to deliver on the industry’s goal of carbon-
neutral growth by early 2020. As of July 2019, 80 states representing 77% of
international aviation activity have voluntarily signed up to CORSIA — and more than
half of these states are European. CORSIA will result in the mitigation of around 2.5
