Regulating aircraft emissions: leadership and market power
本文分析欧盟将商业航空纳入排放交易体系的过程,探讨污染物性质、行业特征和监管框架如何影响欧盟的领导力及面临的困境。
This article examines the process of including commercial aviation in the EU's Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) relative to claims about the EU's leadership in international environment policy-making. It argues that in order to understand the politics and the emerging shape of specific regimes concerned with atmospheric pollution, scholars must examine the nature of the pollutant and the polluting process concerned, the commercial characteristics of the polluting industry, its regulatory framework and any competing mandates held by other international organizations. These factors explain the rationale for the EU's inclusion of aviation in the ETS and the resulting dilemmas faced by the Commission. They also explain the resistance of non-EU carriers to their inclusion in the ETS and the EU's ambiguous success in making them comply.