{"id":1463,"date":"2023-06-10T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-11T00:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/?p=1463"},"modified":"2023-06-18T08:45:25","modified_gmt":"2023-06-18T15:45:25","slug":"iceland-the-eu-and-aviation-emissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/2023\/06\/10\/iceland-the-eu-and-aviation-emissions\/","title":{"rendered":"Iceland, the EU and aviation emissions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visir.is\/g\/20232416041d\/islandi-fai-afram-friar-flugheimildir-til-2026\">As noted by V\u00edsir<\/a>, the rules include, among other things, changes to the European Emissions Trading System (EU ETS), which would now require airlines to pay for emission allowances in a progressive measure (airlines have, until now, received them mostly for free). \u201cThe EU\u2019s intention is that free emission allowances for airlines will decrease by a quarter by 2024 and by half by 2025. They will be completely eliminated after 2026,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visir.is\/g\/20232416041d\/islandi-fai-afram-friar-flugheimildir-til-2026\">V\u00edsir notes<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Icelandic government has been open about its belief that the rules harm the competitive position of Icelandic airlines and fail to take into account Iceland\u2019s geographical location, which makes its citizens more dependent on air transport than other residents of the mainland.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.icelandreview.com\/news\/icelands-free-emissions-allowances-extended-until-2026\/\">Iceland\u2019s Free Emissions Allowances Extended Until 2026<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They should just use solar electricity to power high speed rail to and from Iceland. That would solve the problem \/sarcasm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Limits on aviation will have crippling impacts on island nations like Iceland. The bureaucratic mindset is they should only use electric high speed rail &#8230; (Iceland, an island, does not even have any rail tracks on the island.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}