Easy Emissions
Discount airlines have now become targets for direct-action environmental campaigners, upset at the carbon emissions arising from cheap air-travel. Yesterday’s Guardian newspaper carried a story about protest action which prevented staff from entering the head-office buiding of EasyGroup, owners of airline Easyjet. This was accompanied by co-ordinated protests against regional airports and travel agents in Britain. The lesson for the British and EU authorities: Include air-travel emissions in the ETS cap-and-trade scheme, pronto.