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Frankfurt (AFP) Dec 5, 2006 The German government supports EU plans to introduce binding climate protection guidelines for airlines and will take up the issue when Germany assumes the EU presidency next year, Transport Minister Wolfgang Tiefensee said in a newspaper interview Tuesday. "We want to make progress on the EU Commission's plans to extend emissions trading to air traffic," Tiefensee told the business daily Handelsblatt. Berlin's aim was to secure fundamental agreement on the issue among EU member states during the six-month term of the German EU presidency starting in January, Tiefensee said. On December 20, EU Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas is scheduled to present draft guidelines for including airlines in the emissions trading system, which currently only applies to power generators and energy-intensive industries. The emissions trading system puts a limit on the amount of carbon dioxide that energy intensive companies can emit. If a company overshoots its target, it must buy permits from companies which have undershot their pollution targets.
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Boeing Business Jets Delivers Its 100th Green Airplane
Seattle WA (SPX) Dec 01, 2006Boeing Business Jets has delivered its 100th "green" -- unfurnished -- airplane. Representatives of the government of India accepted the milestone airplane at the Boeing Delivery Center in Seattle. |
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