Will Aviation Tax have an impact on the Environment

By Darren Cronian on Monday, October 30th, 2006

More tax on flights. Great, just what the travel industry needs – I’m not into politics, but what the hell will charging us travellers even more tax for flights have on the environment? Do they think that we will also stop travelling and this will save Global warming?

David Soskin, chief executive of Cheapflights.co.uk makes a very good point.

The Stern report is about global warming, which is a serious issue. But on the specific issue of aviation, the fact is it only contributes 3% of greenhouse gas emissions. If you got rid of aviation, you would still have the other 97% to deal with.

Don’t get me wrong, the environment and global warming is very important, but rather than charging another tax why can’t public transport systems be improved, or residents forced to recycle household waste?

Climate Care, allows you to calculate your journey’s emissions, that is calculated into money, which can then be donated to projects which are being set up to help the environment.

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3 responses to “Will Aviation Tax have an impact on the Environment”

ianmack | 31 October, 2006 at 5:35 pm

agreed, charging more tax seems to place the burden on the traveler rather than the industry. i suppose the proposition deals with supply and demand. if the cost of flying continues going up, less people will decide to fly, or perhaps they’ll pick closer destinations rather than distant ones (which may bankrupt the airline industry, but i suppose that’s a different problem…)

flying has become so essential for a personal transportation, i guess it’s easy to think it’s just as normal as hopping in a car — only the flight generates way way more greenhouse gases. more efficient technology and subsidies to programs like Climate Care would go a long way in offsetting the environmental problems.

Darren Cronian | 31 October, 2006 at 11:48 pm

Ian Mack, I’ve heard of that name, somewhere before!

This is a quote from the Guardian newspaper

“The Treasury, is sending Sir Nicholas (Stern) on a tour of China, India, the US and Australia to set out British thinking…”

Let me guess, he’s flying, I wonder how much money in emissions he will be donating to environmental projects? Can’t he speak to people over the telephone, or maybe email, hell even maybe video conference? Hypocrites.