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The lobby group representing European airports has defended the EU’s current curbs on ‘ghost flights’ after a major carrier said it would run 18,000 “unnecessary” flights to keep its runway slots.
The recent surge in energy prices “underlines” the need for a greater and accelerated pivot to renewables subsidies from fossil fuels, the OECD and IEA have said.
The UN’s World Tourism Organisation’s secretary general Zurab Pololikashvili called for “clear leadership to secure the financing necessary to build a more sustainable future” at a world summit on the future of tourism post-covid held in Barcelona this week.
The EU is set to lead the world in issuing ‘green’ bonds, budget commissioner Johannes Hahn has said, but the market could be limited by a shortage of genuinely sustainable investments.
The Romanian government has confirmed it will shut down all of its coal power plants by 2032, with the lion’s share to go by 2025, as campaigners warn that investors in dozens of Europe’s coal plants enjoy protection under the controversial Energy Charter Treaty.
The EU will issue a first batch of green bonds in October to part fund its multi-billion-euro pandemic recovery plan, the European Commission announced on Tuesday.
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