Aviation: Air Pollution

(asked on 14th December 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the extent to which regulatory arrangements to limit the impact on the climate of aviation once the transition period for the UK’s departure from the EU has ended will be sufficiently collaborative across adjoining airspaces.


Answered by
Baroness Vere of Norbiton Portrait
Baroness Vere of Norbiton
Parliamentary Secretary (HM Treasury)
This question was answered on 22nd December 2020

The Government remains committed to leading ambitious and concerted international action to combat the contribution of aviation to climate change.

At the end of the Transition Period, EU airspace regulations covering requirements on flight efficiency will be retained as UK law.

The UK will also establish a UK Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) that supports our world leading climate ambition. The UK ETS will include aviation and impose surrendering obligations on the following routes from day one: UK domestic flights, flights departing the UK to aerodromes in the European Economic Area (EEA), and flights between the UK and Gibraltar.

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