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‘EU’s most polluting airlines received €683 mln of free permits’
T&E’s graph shows that four of the ten most polluting airlines – Lufthansa, Easy-Jet, Air France, and SAS – received more polluting permits than the amount of CO2 they emitted last year /T&E.org
Up until corona times, aviation was the fastest-growing carbon polluter in the European Union. Still, it is one of the top receivers of free pollution permits relative to their emissions under the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS in short). The EU ETS is a cornerstone of the EU’s policy to combat climate change
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