Climate Changed
Higher Flight Costs Coming in Germany to Curb Emissions
- Merkel’s cabinet coalescing around a deal to boost flying tax
- Aviation emissions have been rising steadily in recent years
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Germany’s main political parties are coalescing around proposals to increase the cost of flying, potentially doubling the tax on short-haul flights to slash greenhouse gas pollution.
Alarmed that the country is falling short of emissions-reductions pledges it made under the Paris Agreement on climate change, Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats are drawing up policies with their Social Democrat coalition partners and focusing on air transport for some of the most dramatic reductions.