EU’s airline emission cap likely to take off-07 October 2011, Business Standard

Gets legal green signal from top law officer, despite non-EU countries’ combined protest.

For the international aviation industry, the skies just grew stormier. The advocate-general of the European Court of Justice (ECJ), an advisor to the European Union’s highest court, has said it is legal for the latter to include non-European airlines in its new carbon emissions trading scheme (ETS).

EU’s airline emission cap likely to take off