Transcript Martin Staniland - Civil Aviation and the E.U. Emissions Trading Scheme

ICAO/McGill Conference on Aviation
Safety, Security and the Environment
September 14-16 2007
Civil Aviation and the E.U. Emissions
Trading Scheme
Martin Staniland
European Union Center and Graduate School of Public and
International Affairs
University of Pittsburgh
Civil Aviation and the E.U. Emissions Trading Scheme
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What is the problem?
What is the Emissions Trading Scheme?
What are the goals for the civil aviation sector?
Who/what in aviation will the scheme cover?
How will it work?
When will it start?
Issues? Criticisms?
Civil Aviation and the E.U. Emissions Trading Scheme
What is the problem?
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Total EU Co2 emissions = c.50% of global total (plus NoX, water vapor)
Civil aviation emissions in EU = (2005) 161mn. tons (c.4% of EU total)
But rising sharply – by 73%, 1990-2003 (rising 7.5% in 2004 alone)
Projections of continued traffic growth, especially in accession states
What is the EU Emissions Trading Scheme?
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Created 2003 following ratification of Kyoto
Intended to contribute to holding down global warming to 2°C above pre-industrial
level
Applied initially to12,000 plants within EU, in Phase I (2005-7)
Cap-and-trade: initial allocations in Assigned Amount Units (AAUs); surplus
allowances may be sold in carbon market; deficit must be bought (or obtained via
Kyoto “project credits”)
Civil aviation: added 2006, effective 2011
Civil Aviation and the E.U. Emissions Trading Scheme
• What are the goals for civil aviation sector?
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Hold emissions to 2004-6 level: 161 mn tons, vs. between 202 and 286 mn
tons by 2020 under different “business-as-usual” scenarios
Required abatement (therefore) 41 – 125 mn. tons (20-44%), by
combination of emissions reduction and purchases in carbon market
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Eventually, all commercial flights to and from airports within EU (challenged
by non-EU states, including US)
Excludes military flights, flights by heads of state and government,
emergency, training and recreational flights
Civil Aviation and the E.U. Emissions Trading Scheme
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Operational measures: improved ATC; more efficient airport operations;
changes in flight procedure (e.g., Continuous Descent Approach)
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Technological changes: more efficient motors/aircraft design; new fuels
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Strategic/commercial decisions: fewer flights, fewer new aircraft, larger but
more economic aircraft, higher fares?
Issues? Criticisms?
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Goal? Hold at 2004-6 level; reduce to 1990 level ?(!)
Open or closed system? (only civil aviation or all sectors?)
Base? (2004-6 or later?)
Allocation to whom? Aircraft operators (not states, airports, aircraft
constructors)
Method of allocation? Free? (Grandfathering? Benchmarked?)
Auctioned? Mixture of free and auctioned? What mixture?
Multiplier? (total environmental effect = 2-4 x accumulated Co2
emissions)
Monitoring: by fuel consumption
Accountability: “accountable entity” = Member State (+ airlines)
Scope: Intra-EU flights or all “arriving and departing” (i.e. including nonEU carriers: NB. for entire distance flown, not just within EU airspace)
Discrimination: LCCs? Short-haul/long-haul? New entrants? New
Member States? Low income vs. higher income passengers?
Impact: What will it cost? Who will pay? Will it work?