Climate change protest today
05.04.08
Environmental campaigners will stage a protest at Edinburgh Airport today to highlight the growing problem of carbon emissions from the aviation industry. The local branches of the World Development Movement and Friends of the Earth are holding the event as part of a bid to get the Government to include aviation and shipping emissions in a new Climate Change Bill currently going through Parliament.
Gillian Wilson of Friends of the Earth Edinburgh, said: ‘It is crazy for Gordon Brown to leave out climate changing emissions from planes and ships from the Climate Change Bill. Why should industry and businesses be held to account for their carbon emissions but not the aviation industry? It is like banning drink-driving but making vodka drinkers exempt.’
The protest is supported by Edinburgh West MP John Barrett, who said: ‘Given the projected rise in aviation emissions and the lack of awareness about the huge carbon impact of shipping, any Bill that does not take these two sources of emissions into account will be compromised from the start.’
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