PARIS, April 2 — European airlines fear losing out to rivals based outside the EU that can ignore the bloc’s emissions-reduction rules to become carbon neutral by 2050.
SAFs come from sources such as municipal solid waste, leftovers from the agricultural and forestry industry, used cooking oil, crops and plants, and hydrogen. “The European airline industry has to live with the fact that it’s cheaper to bypass environmental reduction ideas if you hop outside of Europe,” Carsten Spohr, CEO of German carrier Lufthansa, said at the Airlines for Europe aviation summit in Brussels on Wednesday.
Under this system, all airlines operating in Europe — both European and non-European — have to monitor, report and verify their emissions, and to surrender allowances against those emissions. “Istanbul is ideally placed for going to Asia, Africa and eastern Europe. We have to stop being naive,” said Alain Battisti, the former president of France’s National Aviation Federation.“Climate change and the legal regulations that go with it are inevitable. Important measures are going to be taken on the EU side, and as a result, the centre of gravity of air transport is likely to shift to the East,” Kadri Samsunlu, the CEO of Istanbul airport, told AFP.
The “Europeans for fair competition” group, which includes airlines and unions, is seeking a carbon border tax, like those for industry.
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