Letter to the Clerk of the Committee from
Jeffrey Gazzard, Board Member, Aviation Environment Federation
Following the Environmental Audit Committee's
decision to look at this important issue, we have submitted the
following evidence by post and electronically, which we hope the
Committee's members find useful and informative:
— Six page memorandum responding to
the Committee's five headline questions[1].
— Copy of the INFRAS/IWW study "External
Costs of Transport"[2].
— Copy of the AEF publication "The
Hidden Cost of Flying"[3].
— Copy of the CE Delft summary document
"Economic incentives to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions
from air transport in Europe"[4].
— Copy of the AEF/AirportWatch submission
to the Transport Committee's Aviation Inquiry[5]
We believe our submission and the supporting
documentation provided give both the detail and context necessary
to help make our views clearly understood.
As the oral evidence given to the Committee
recently by John Healey MP, Economic Secretary, on behalf of Her
Majesty's Treasury shows, questions on the external costs of aviation
almost always lead to a wider discussion of the role demand management
could play in controlling and reducing the growing environmental
impacts of air transport. This is why we have sent the Committee
a comprehensive selection of contextual material.
We would be very grateful for an opportunity
to present and answer questions on our submission from the Committee's
members in due course.
May 2003
1 See following memorandum. Back
2
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5
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