Aviation

Following successful KLM flight this week, British airline announces biofuel flight from Birmingham to Palma

Neither side backs down in Oslo talks, with EU insistent aviation will be part of its emissions trading scheme from next year

Dutch airline to run commercial flights using biofuels from September, while Airbus ratchets up orders for fuel efficient jet

Russia could join China and the US in speaking out against aviation emissions being included in EU's cap and trade system

ZEHST concept plane would travel at over 3,000mph powered by biofuels, oxygen and hydrogen

European trade body dismisses "myths" that it opposed entry into emission trading scheme, reiterates call for global mechanism

Aviation chiefs say plans for carbon charge on flights to and from Europe will spark retaliations from China and US

Science agency says Australia and New Zealand have sufficient non-food sources to produce commercially viable quantities of biofuel

European finance ministers say new levies could help drive global carbon-cutting efforts

Swiss-built solar-powered plant attempts 370 mile pan-European flight as precursor to a round the world attempt