Download or read book Eighth Report of Session 2005-06 written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: European Scrutiny Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2005-11-14 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pages 3 to 7 of this report discuss the Commission's communication on reducing the climate change impact of aviation. Although fuel efficiency of aircraft has increased by more than 70 per cent over the past 40 years, this has been more than offset by the even higher growth in traffic. Whilst the Community's total emissions of greenhouse gases controlled under the Kyoto protocol fell by 5 per cent between 1990 and 2003, those from international aviation increased by 73 per cent. Aviation, though, remains largely outside the measures which have been taken to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The Commission proposes including aviation within the Community's emissions trading scheme, and will introduce legislative proposals to this effect by the end of 2006. The Committee recommends the communication for debate in European Standing Committee A.