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Environmental warning on air travel growth
MPs have warned that the continuing growth in air travel will mean the Government’s climate-change targets are impossible to achieve. According to The Independent newspaper, quoting the Environmental Audit Committee’s pre-Budget report on aviation, the Department for Transport is “failing to recognise that the predicted increase in passenger numbers will have a massive environmental impact over the next 30 years”. The report also suggests that the Department has failed to recognise that there is a disparity between aviation policy and commitments to reduce carbon emissions given by the Government. The committee is basing its argument on figures published in the Government’s White Paper on Aviation last December, which stated that passenger numbers could grow from 180 million per year to 476 million per year in 2030. A statement by the group reportedly reads: “If aviation emissions increase in the scale predicted by the DfT, the UK’s 60 per cent carbon emission target that the Government set last year will become meaningless and unachieveable. The most we could hope to achieve would be about 35 per cent.” Keith Jowett, of the Airport Operators Association, is quoted as saying: “It is disappointing that the committee hasn’t sufficiently recognised the immense amount of work that has been, and is being, done across the industry to address the issue of environmental impact.” Report by Tim Gillett, News From Abroad
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