Environmental group says adding levies to airline tickets would help ease financial burden on poor countries
Adding a levy to airline tickets could raise more than €100bn a year to pay for the damage done by climate breakdown, research has found.
Flying is the most carbon-intensive means of travel, but is artificially cheap as airline fuel is often not taxed, and the environmental impacts are not paid for.
Aviation makes up more than 2% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Even in developed countries, only about half of people fly each year and about 1% of the world’s population is responsible for more than half of the aviation emissions.
Several countries are considering putting a charge on tickets that would raise money to help tackle the climate crisis, particularly for poor countries.
