European environment commissioner Stavros Dimas has welcomed the political agreement struck by EU ministers on aviation’s future inclusion in the emissions trading scheme.

EU ministers yesterday reached a political agreement on including aviation in the EU emissions trading scheme. Dimas says ministers’ position, based on a new text put forward by the Portuguese EU presidency, remains close to that of the EC proposals.

“Today’s political agreement on including aircraft in the emissions trading scheme sends an important signal about the EU’s determination to put in place concrete measures to combat climate change,” he says.

The ministers’ position calls for a single start to airlines incorporation into the system from 2012. The EC proposals had envisaged a phased introduction, applying it first to EU member states only from 2011, before widening the scheme to all fli

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