{"id":7555,"date":"2015-11-24T17:40:26","date_gmt":"2015-11-24T16:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travindy.com\/?p=7555"},"modified":"2015-11-24T18:17:20","modified_gmt":"2015-11-24T17:17:20","slug":"place-high-tax-on-premium-air-travel-to-raise-climate-protection-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/2015\/11\/place-high-tax-on-premium-air-travel-to-raise-climate-protection-funds\/","title":{"rendered":"Place high tax on premium air travel to raise climate protection funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7556 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/travindy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/contrail-699526_1280.jpg\" alt=\"contrail-699526_1280\" width=\"1280\" height=\"851\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/contrail-699526_1280.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/contrail-699526_1280-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/contrail-699526_1280-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/contrail-699526_1280-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/contrail-699526_1280-103x67.jpg 103w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/>French economist Thomas Piketty has suggested a high tax on premium air travel, suggesting:\u00a0\u201cA \u20ac180 levy on business class tickets and \u20ac20 on economy class would raise the estimated \u20ac150 billion a year needed for climate adaptation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Across the world, about 10% of people are responsible for 45% of global CO2 emissions, and increasingly some of the high emitters are a privileged elite in emerging economies. One idea proposed in the UK is a \u201cfrequent flyer\u201d levy, where anyone\u2019s first flight is tax free, but the tax shoots up with each successive flight.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.airportwatch.org.uk\/2015\/11\/french-economist-suggests-high-tax-on-premium-air-travel-to-raise-climate-adaptation-finance\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read full story on Airportwatch here<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Download a New Economics Foundation <a href=\"https:\/\/s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/media.afreeride.org\/documents\/FFL+Modelling+paper.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">report on viability of a &#8220;Frequent Flyer Levy&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Check out this recent New Economics Foundation podcast on the <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/weeklyeconomicspodcast\/flying\/\" target=\"_blank\">environmental costs of flying<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A french economist claims a \u20ac180 levy on business class tickets and \u20ac20 on economy class would raise the 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