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Winter 2019 European Energy Innovation 45

AVIATION DECARBONISATION

of air traffic management (ATM) Aviation players need
and air navigation services (ANS),
with the specific aims of increasing incentives to invest in
airspace capacity threefold (so
reducing delays), improving safety technology and biofuels. In an
performance tenfold, reducing by 10%
the environmental impact of flights increasingly globalized world
and reducing ATM costs by 50%.
we need to move quickly
Small, regional companies in
Europe have lost 10-15% of their not only from one country to
customers due to environmental
taxes. Especially these ones must another, but from one
be supported by the EU. They need
affordable biofuels, as at the moment continent to another.
they are simply too expensive. Of
course, we want a clean environment, We keep asking for climate proofing.
and that’s what we do for our What about competitiveness
citizens. But affordable airplane proofing? What about job proofing?
tickets would be a measure for the The new Commission should find a
benefit of our citizens as well. balance between the three of them,
as the Green Deal should be about
Aviation companies need incentives people, eventually, not only about
to reach decarbonization targets. climate. l
We cannot ask them to keep adding
taxes, because this will affect their
competitiveness, on one hand, and
on the other, it will mean that we
place a burden on the travelers’
shoulders as well as on theirs, which
will lead to more and more expensive
tickets. Aviation players need
incentives to invest in technology and
biofuels. In an increasingly globalized
world we need to move quickly not
only from one country to another, but
from one continent to another. Air
connectivity is vital and therefore it
needs incentives to get sustainable.

We want decarbonization? What about
Clean Sky, Shift to Rail, Single European
Sky as solutions for decarbonization?
Why don’t Member States want to
start implementing SES?

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