Aviation deal clears way for emissions scheme - by Jennifer Rankin

A global deal on aviation pollution has removed a major obstacle to a European Union plan that will oblige airlines to cut their greenhouse gas emissions.

The EU agreed in 2008 that all flights taking off and landing in the Union would be included in the EU's emissions trading scheme from 2012. This meant that emissions from aviation would be capped and that airlines would have to buy some permits to pollute. But the law ran into trouble last year when US airlines launched a legal challenge in the European Court of Justice.

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