France has approved an invoice through Parliament to ban short -distance flights when there is an option for an exercise of 2. 5 hours or less, anything that has been in its place, in practice, for some time. However, while France said that its legal prohibition is first global, for environmentalists, the law too diluted.
The prohibition was the component of an agreement in 2020, in the middle of the pandemic, to rescue the National Air France airline, when passengers cannot fly and those who have just started taking the train. In exchange for government money, the airline agreed to avoid some short distance routes to meet the environmental objectives.
The explanation for why it has done so recently is that airlines have asked the European Commission to investigate whether it is legal and the result is yes.
Surprisingly for such a ban, there are lots of reasons as to why environmentalists are not the happiest they could be:
That said, the bill is historic because it absolutely excludes the option of airlines operating between several of France’s major cities — Nantes, Lyon and Bordeaux — and Paris, as the bill dictates that no airline can start a new business to fill the gap.
Environmentalists have more room to defend new adjustments to the bill in order to cover more roads. As the Times reports, bonuses prohibited by law make up just 3% of emissions from French domestic flights and just 0. 3% of advertising flights taking off in mainland France.
Greenpeace France called the bill inadequate but nevertheless a small step in the right direction. It is now calling on the EU to push for bans in other countries to solve the climate crisis and the French government is contemplating adding additional pathways to the ban when it is reviewed in 3 years’ time.
While the bill doesn’t cover private jets, the French government is talking about raising charges on private jets from 2024. Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport recently announced that private jets would no longer be welcome under new environmental plans for the area.
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