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Civil Aviation Bill

I shall come into this debate on emissions trading because I have just received an interesting article from Energy in Buildings & Industry magazine. It illustrates the problem of airlines joining heavy industry in emissions trading. Apart from the fact that they are joining three, four, five or six years after heavy industry, purchasing allowances represent for heavy industry a significant cost element for energy-intensive industries, where carbon dioxide emissions per-unit sales are high. It would have very little effect on airlines to buy it. The example given is €30 per tonne, which would just add €30 to a round trip from Paris to New York. There will be severe problems with the air industry starting off with enormous grandfather rights and then joining a trading system with heavy industry—for example, cement and similar industries. I am not sure that it has been properly investigated. Now is not the time to go into it in any great detail, but we ought to look at it when it comes up.