Taxes on plane travel should rise to tackle climate change, a major report drawn up for MPs recommends today. The 556-page Climate Assembly UK study makes a series of suggestions about how the Government can meet its pledge for net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.
The landmark report is the culmination of more than 6,000 hours of evidence sessions with 108 members over six weekends earlier this year.
One of its key recommendations says: “Assembly members’ preferred policy option for managing the amount we fly were taxes that increase as people fly more often and as they fly further. “Eighty per cent of Assembly members ‘strongly agreed’ or ‘agreed’ that this should be part of how the UK gets to net-zero. “Assembly members tended to see these
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