LUXURY FLIGHT TAX
The absence of leaders from the world’s greatest polluters, together with the US, the place President Donald Trump has dismissed local weather science as a “con job,” forged a shadow over talks, but additionally catalysed requires higher mobilisation.
France, Spain and Kenya are amongst a bunch of nations spearheading a drive on the COP30 local weather summit for a brand new tax on luxurious air journey, rooted in the concept the small elite of premium flyers ought to pay extra for his or her outsized contribution to international warming.
“It’s only truthful that those that have extra and pollute extra ought to pay their fair proportion,” Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez advised the summit.
“We need to develop the coalition and, particularly, carry in additional European states,” a supply advised AFP.
The proposal is bound to face headwinds from the aviation sector, accountable for about 2.5 per cent of the world’s carbon emissions.
