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This article discusses the impact of the European Union Emissions Trading System (ETS) on the business jet community. It highlights the opinion of the community that the ETS is an unfair emissions trading scheme for the industry in Europe. It notes that about 2,700 operators will be affected by the rules from the European Commission (EC). The concern of the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama over the ETS is also noted.

The article focuses on the exploration of alternative-energy options by aircraft manufacturers in Europe due to their eventual inclusion in an emissions trading scheme or ETS. One example is Bombardier's Belfast production site, which has to balance its carbon dioxide output with the cap-and-trade plan covering industrial activities that Europe has been using since 2005. Airbus has installed solar cells at its Spanish facilities that reduce carbon dioxide output by about 100 metric tons per year.

The article reports that although Europe is moving ahead to develop an environmentally friendly air traffic system for business aviation, bizav leaders worry that the continent's strong environmental consciousness could still end up putting them at a competitive disadvantage. The implementation of a Single European Sky (SES) air traffic management (ATM) system, will allow business aviation operators and other airspace users to benefit from the lower emissions and noise that increased ATM efficiencies are expected to bring.

The article focuses on the controversy over inclusion of aviation in emissions trading. Europe has been driving the agenda to incorporate aviation into the emissions trading scheme (ETS), with plans to start including the sector in 2011, but airlines and the U.S. have been urging that a global approach be negotiated at the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) level, rather than having Europe go it alone.

The article reports on the price of carbon dioxide allowances (EUAs) under the European Union (EU) Emissions Trading System (ETS) for April 2014, noting a rebound after falling to a nine-month low in late March. It believes that speculators quit long positions taken ahead of the European Commission's backloading measure which started mid-March. It talks about the backloading law and the application of EU ETS to intra-European flights, and presents a chart on daily emissions price assessments.

The article discusses emissions trading issues that may be addressed during the September 2013 meeting of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) in Montreal, Quebec. According to the article, a solution is being developed that would task ICAO to create a method for monitoring carbon emissions from the aviation industry and decide its details by 2016. The article notes that until a global system is implemented in 2020, Europe would restrict emissions trading to its own airspace.

The article reports that European Union (EU) carbon dioxide allowance (EUA) prices under the EU Emissions Trading System were slightly higher in June 2013 as investors expect the European Parliament to approve a plan to reduce the amount of EUAs offered at auctions.

The article considers a proposal by the airline industry trade association International Air Transport Association (IATA) to create a unified carbon-dioxide emissions offsetting program for international airline operations by 2020. The proposal is considered as an alternative to the total implementation of the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU-ETS) on foreign airline industry companies' operations.

The article reports that the price of carbon dioxide allowances (EUAs) under the European Union (EU) emissions trading system increased in May 2013 after comments by Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany that Germany may support a plan to delay 2013-2014 auctions of EUAs.

The article reports that European Union emission allowance (EUA) prices increased in August in the EU Emissions Trading System due to increases in prices of power resources. It is also reported that the EU and Australia have reached an agreement linking their emissions trading systems allowing business enterprises to use both.

The article discusses the price of European Union (EU) emission allowances (EUAs) in December 2011. The price of EUAs fell in early December 2011, which the article attributes to the EU economy and sovereign debt crises, but increased at the end of the month after the EU's environment committee amended the EU Energy Efficiency Directive and reduced the number of allowances.

The article looks at the price of European Union (EU) emission allowances (EUAs), which decreased in November 2011. A trader argues that the prices dropped due to the likelihood of a financial recession in the eurozone but says that the European Commission does not intervene. The author suggests that prices have not collapsed further due to the rule which allows factories to keep surplus allowances in the Emissions Trading System's (ETS) third phase.

The article discusses the European Union's (EU) plan to include global airlines in its emissions trading system (ETS). The author argues that the EU has bypassed the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and that EU's plan will harm the commercial aviation industry, disrupt route networks, and change traffic rights. The possible responses of the government and airline industries are examined.

The article argues that European Union (EU) regulators need to work with European airlines to modify the EU's emissions trading scheme, which the aviation industry is set to join on January 1, 2012. In the author's view the scheme as currently configured will create costs for the airlines and harm their competitiveness while doing little for the environment.

The article reports on European Union (EU) emissions allowance (EUA) prices for March 2010, which had ranged from €12.90 to €13.55. Verified annual carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions data for all of the EU member states were scheduled for release by the European Commission in April, and were expected to show a steep drop in CO2 emissions for the prior year.

The article looks at the price of the European Union emissions allowance (EUA) as of July 2009. It states that the EUA prices posted modest gains during the period which demonstrates an ongoing decoupling from wider fundamentals such as the price of crude, which dropped during the first half of the month. According to some analysts, short-term fuel switching by utilities from coal to gas had largely been exhausted which leaves little room for further reductions in the short term.

The article reports that the price of European Union emission allowances (EUAs) under the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme stabilized in December, after losing ground throughout most of November. December 2009 EUAs slipped in the first few days of last month, dropping as low as €14.17 ($20.10) per metric ton of carbon dioxide equivalent as falling oil prices weighed on sentiment. December 2009 prices broadly held steady for the remainder of last month, trading mostly in a range of €15.50-16 per metric ton.

The article reports that the price of certified emission reductions (CERs) collapsed in January 2008 amid uncertainty over a post-Kyoto international climate agreement and rumors of a large-scale liquidation of CERs by a trading house. Secondary CERs for December 2008 delivery on the over-the-counter market fell from €17.65 on January 9, 2008 to €14.20 by the close on January 31, 2008.

The article reports on the move of the European Commission to press forward with tweaked emissions trading plan for aviation. The European Commission backed off from some of the more controversial aspects of a proposal put forward by its environmental directorate, but held firm in its plan to embrace emissions trading as a means to curtail pollution in air transport. Airlines prefer an emissions trading scheme to taxes, because it gives them a greater flexibility to react and provides incentives to modernize.

The article reports that the European Commission's plan to include aviation in emissions trading is finding support among regional environmental ministers, even as the U.S. mounts opposition. The U.S. wants the International Civil Aviation Organization to lead discussions on aviation emissions trading and is hoping any such deal would be only on a voluntary basis. Meanwhile, the emissions trading issue is threatening to become embroiled in another agreement resisted by the U.S., the Kyoto protocol on climate change.