Three aviation experts have pulled the world’s governments by the ears saying the revenue coming from green taxes in the airline industry is not invested into looking for greener solution to air travel.

The environmentalists that called on the governments are BAA Stansted’s head of environment Dr. Andy Jefferson,

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Emirates divisional senior vice-president commercial operations worldwide Richard Vaughan and Manchester Metropolitan University’s professor of sustainable aviation Dr. Callum Thomas. The expressed their concern about these funds in a World Travel Market seminar.

“The UK Airport Operators Association did a paper last week on the APD and its impact. It showed tax recovered from APD was £806 million in 2001/2 and in 2007/8 it was £1.99 billion. My concern is that this money is going into lots of different government pots – the banks too probably – and not being put back into helping the aviation industry find a solution to the Co2 emissions crisis,” said Jefferson.

Vaughan also mentioned he knows some money are invested in looking for greener solutions, but there are also many funds that go elsewhere.

“Globally, governments are aiming to reduce Co2 emissions by 50% and in developed economies those governments need to reduce emissions by 80%. And all the time emissions are going up as we struggle to find a solution. We are simply not developing the technology fast enough to offset our emissions right now. Our governments need to reinvest all the emission tax money they are getting into finding a solution,”

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