Andrew Sentance Emissions Quotations

The emissions trading scheme must be given every opportunity to succeed, ... Increasing taxes on aviation is a blunt way of placing additional costs on the industry without offering any guarantee of a reduction in emissions.

The EU scheme should provide a practical and realistic way of addressing the climate change impact of CO2 emissions from aviation.

There is no international agreement to introduce emissions trading for global aviation and we do not want the EU scheme to be sidelined by international disputes or for EU airlines competitiveness to be jeopardized.