EU Law - Aviation Directive Flashcards
% of greenhouse gas attributable to aviation
3%
Rising rate of greenhouse gas emissions attributable to aviation
3 - 4%
What does CBDR stand for
Common but differentiated responsibility and respective capability
What was the international agreement hat sought to combat climate change?
Kyoto Protocol
What does CBDR mean?
Developed countries should do more because contributing longer and greater economic resources to combat
Article 2(2) Kyoto Protocl
Annex I countries should pursue emission reductions from aviation and marine bunker fuels
What agreement delegated responsibillity to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to IAO and IMO?
Kyoto Protocl
What are Annex 1 countries?
Developed
Non-annex 1 countries
Developing
To what two organisations did the Kyoto Protocol delegate responsibility?
International Aviation Organisation and International Maritime Organisation
What does ICAO stand for?
International Civil Aviation Organisation
What did ICAO project after Kyoto?
2% reduction per year up to 2020 but then aspirational, and biofuel
What is an MBM?
Market-based mechanism
By what percentage had EU aviation emissions increased between 1990 and 2002/
+73%
What measure shows the first step of the EU with regard to aviation emissions?
Directive 2008/101
EU Aviation Directive original
Directive 2008/101
Directive 2008/101
EU Aviation Directive
What did Directive 2008/101 create?
Emissions market for greenhouse gas emissions
How many allowances were given free under Aviation D?
85%
How much of global aviation emissions did the EU A D cove?
1/3
What would happen to persistent non-compliers with EU A D?
Aircraft seize
What shows contract law acting as a governance function to ensure compliance with EU measures?
Aircraft leasing companies wrote in clauses requiring renter to comply with EU A D
Outline EU A D
Lading or taking off from EU; emissions across ENTIRE flight; have regard to country of origin
What was the territorial extension in EU A D?
Covered all emissions emitted across ENTIRE flight
How are allowances calculated under EU A D?
Free allowances based on historic emissions levels - discrimination against developing?
Name at least two threats made against EU once implications of EU A D realised?
Take EU to WTO; refuse to negotiate bilaterally, economic sanctions, EU emissions trading scheme prohibition act 2011 etc.
EU emissions trading scheme prohibition act 2011 general
US ‘blocking statute’
EU emissions trading scheme prohibition act 2011 said what of EU A D?
It was extraterritorial, unilateral and directly infringe on US sovereignty
Section 2 EU emissions trading scheme prohibition act 2011
Secretary of Transport needs to prohibit compliance IF against public interest
Section 3 EU emissions trading scheme prohibition act 2011
Enforces use of authority for international negotiation to achieve a worldwide approach
What party originally proposed a much stricter version of EU emissions trading scheme prohibition act 2011?
Republicans