We examine the impacts of the EU-US Open Skies agreement on the environment, in particular looking at the effect of the … in emissions. Model simulations show that passenger numbers arriving from the US to the EU will increase by between 1 … percentage increase in global emissions is much smaller (max. 1%) than the increase in cross-Atlantic traffic. In the current …

In 2005, the EU introduced an emissions trading system in order to pursue its Kyoto obligations. This instrument gives … on the national allocation plans as submitted to and approved by the EU. We find that, if the NAP is combined with a …