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Selected references concerning the most synthetic and interesting documents as regards the problematic of international transport and climate policies are available on this page, with a special focus on aviation and shipping. This page will be regularly updated.

Official documents

• European Directive on aviation and the EU-ETS
  
  
• European Environment Council - Conclusions on the inclusion of aviation in the EU-ETS (December 2007)
  --> Summary and stakeholders' positions (EurActiv)
  
  
• European Parliament - Clear skies ahead: MEPs vote to curb airline emissions by including them in European trading scheme (November 2007)
  --> Summary and stakeholders' positions (EurActiv)
  
  
• ICAO - Assembly Resolution A36-22 (September 2007)
  
  
• European Commission - Proposal for a Directive amending Directive 2003/87/EC so as to include aviation activities in the scheme for GHG emission allowance trading within the Community (December 2006)
  --> Impact Assessment
  
  
• EU Parliament - Resolution on reducing the climate change impact of aviation (July 2006)
  --> Positions of the sector : IACA to EU Parliament | IACA on Lucas report | AEA | ACI Europe
  --> NGOs' positions : T&E
  
  
• European Climate Change Programme II - Final report of the Aviation Working Group (April 2006)
  
  
• ICAO - Assembly Resolutions in Force A35-5 (2004)
  
  
• EU directive 2004/101/EC amending the 2003/87/EC directive ("linking directive")
  
  
• EU directive 2003/87/EC establishing a scheme for GHG emission allowance trading (EU-ETS)
  
  
• IPCC - Revised 1996 guidelines : "Guidelines for national GHG inventories"
  
  
• Kyoto protocol and ratification list
  
  
• UNFCCC text and ratification list
  
  

Scientific public references on aviation and climate change

• UK's met office, Reading and Leeds universities - How aircraft contrails form cloud: Satellite images have revealed how aircraft contrails form into cirrus clouds indistinguishable from those that arise naturally. (January 2010)
  
  
• ECATS - the EU FP6 Network of Excellence on "Environmentally Compatible Air Transport System"
  
  
• CE-Delft & Manchester Metropolitan University - The Impacts of the Use of Different Benchmarking Methodologies on the Initial Allocation of Emission Trading Scheme Permits to Airlines (July 2007)
  
  
• IPCC - Fourth Assessment Report (2007)
  
  
• International Conference on Transport, Atmosphere and Climate (TAC-QUANTIFY) - Proceedings (26-29 June 2006, Oxford, UK)
  
  
• Symposium "Avoiding dangerous climate change" (1-3 February 2005) - Conference outcomes (May 2005)
  
  
• DG Environment - Giving wings to emission trading - Inclusion of the aviation under the EU-ETS : design and impacts (July 2005 - CE Delft) - basis document for the EU
  
  
• INFRAS / IWW - Les coûts externes des transports : étude d'actualisation (October 2004, summary)
  
  
• European Commission, 5th framework programme - Aircraft emissions : contribution of different climate components to changes in radiative forcing, tradeoff to reduce atmospheric impact (2003)
  
  
• IPCC report - Aviation and the global atmosphere (1999 - to be updated) - basis document for the UNFCCC
  
  

Aviation market

• Airbus - Global market forecast 2007 - 2026 (2007)
  
  
• Eurocontrol - Long term forecast: flight movements 2006-2025 (December 2006)
  
  
• Eurocontrol - Low cost carriers: market update (December 2006)
  
  
• Eurocontrol - Getting to the Point: Business Aviation in Europe (May 2006)
  
  

Specific documents about the Belgian climate policy

• National Climate Commission - GHG emissions in Belgium : trends, forecasts and progress compared to the Kyoto target (2007)
  --> French version
  --> Dutch version
  
  
• Second national allocation plan (draft 2006)
  
  
• Belgian federal state - National GHG inventory report (2006)
  --> Summary of the major findings
  --> GHG emission profile of Belgium
  
  
• Belgian federal state - Initial report for the Kyoto Protocol art.7, §4 (2006)
  
  
• Belgian federal state - Fourth national communication on climate change under the UNFCCC (2006)
  
  
• Belgian federal state - Belgium's report on demonstrable progress (2006)
  
  
• First national allocation plan - Federal F/NL - Flemish region - Walloon region - Brussels-Capital region F/NL (2004)
  
  
• Post-2012 climate policy
  
  

Actors positions

• Joint industry paper on international aviation and climate change
  
  
• Enviro.Aero : a website on aviation and the environment produced by the Geneva-based Air Transport Action Group (ATAG)
  
  
• Ad hoc committee "Bunker fuels - aviation and EU-ETS" - Stakeholders dialogues
  --> January 2008 | June 2007 | February 2007
  
  
• AEA - Ernst&Young - Analysis of the EC proposal to include aviation activities in the emissions trading scheme (June 2007)
  
  
• T&E / CAN-Europe - Clearing the air : the myth and reality of aviation and climate change (June 2006)
  
  
• European Commission - DG Environment - Public consultation on Reducing the Climate Impacts of Aviation (March-May 2005)
  
  
• European Commission - DG Environment - Review of EU Emission Trading Scheme : Survey Highlights (November 2005)
  
  
• IETA (International Emission Trading Association) - IETA's position on the inclusion of aviation in the EU ETS
  
  
• IETA (International Emission Trading Association) - The impact of aviation on EUA prices
  
  

Students' works

• Strategic alliances in aviation - Karen Vekeman - 2007 (Master sales engineering - VUB)
  
  
• Post-2012 politiek betreffende de broeikaseffecten te wijten aan internationaal luchtvaartverkeer - Virgini Geranios - 2007 (Master in de milieu-expertise - VUB)
  
  
• Comparing the humidity of the high troposphere as simulated by CLM with reanalysis and satellite data - Andrew Ferrone - 2007 (ASTR - UCL)
  
  
• Zijn korteafstandsvluchten klimatologisch aanvaardbaar? Casestudie: de vlucht Charleroi-Luik zoals voorzien door de luchtvaartmaatschappij Jet4you - Heijke Rombaut - 2007 (Master Duurzame Ontwikkeling en Menselijke Ecologie - VUB)
  
  
• Prise en compte des émissions de l’aviation civile internationale dans un régime post-Kyoto - Arnaud Brohé - 2006 (IGEAT-ULB)
  
  
• Etude comparative des programmes de compensation volontaire des émissions de CO₂ par les passagers d’avion - André Heughebaert - 2006 (IGEAT - ULB)
  
  
• Modeling the impact of aviation on climate - Andrew Ferrone - 2006 (ASTR - UCL)
  
  

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