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'Bleeding money': Campaigners warn aviation tax loopholes are costing European governments €4m an hour

Policy

'Bleeding money': Campaigners warn aviation tax loopholes are costing European governments €4m an hour

Overhauling the aviation taxation regime would help European governments claw back billions of Euros in missed revenue and help cut carbon emissions, a new analysis suggests

clock 12 July 2023 • 3 min read
Prize Flights: BBC urged to stop offering flights to competition winners

Aviation

Prize Flights: BBC urged to stop offering flights to competition winners

A petition launched by behavioural change charity Flight Free UK has now received support from environmental campaigners, after Radio 1 offered flights from the UK to US as a prize for listeners

clock 04 May 2023 • 5 min read
Business travellers flying less for meetings post-pandemic, survey shows

Aviation

Business travellers flying less for meetings post-pandemic, survey shows

Ipsos survey suggests employees want their businesses to set green travel targets to minimise corporate flights

clock 03 November 2022 • 2 min read

BusinessGreen

Which? reveals how carbon-conscious holidaymakers face higher travel fares

Which? investigation reveals how planes continue to beat trains on ticket prices, despite much higher carbon impacts

clock 14 July 2021 • 5 min read

Rail

Intrepid Travel touts flight-free trips in science-based climate plan

Tour operator becomes first in the world to have its climate goals verified by the Science Based Targets initiative

clock 28 October 2020 • 3 min read

Transport

Poll: Cleaner air and time in nature spurring greener travel habits

A third of UK adults are planning to use trains more in future and one-in-five intend to fly less, YouGov survey finds

clock 23 October 2020 • 3 min read

Aviation

Should stags and hens fly? Study shows how pre-wedding trips are fuelling Britain's flying habit

Yet poll by environmental charity Hubbub also finds many Briton's view foreign stag and hen trips as expensive and unnecessary

clock 20 February 2020 • 3 min read

Policy

Reports: Danish newspaper tackles journalists' air travel in bid to cut CO2

Major Denmark broadsheet Politiken pledges to end domestic air travel and minimise international flights for assignments

clock 11 January 2019 • 1 min read

Investment

Christmas news roundup: The key stories you may have missed

BusinessGreen rounds up all the key green economy stories from over the festive period

clock 02 January 2019 • 6 min read

Aviation

Norway eyes minimum green biofuel requirement for airlines from 2020

Ministry for climate and environment announces rules for aviation fuel producers aimed at boosting development of low emission flight technologies

clock 05 October 2018 • 2 min read