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 …

policy is well-designed, a condition not met by planned EU policy. It is probably twice as expensive as needed, costing one … in ten years of economic growth. The EU targets for 2020 are unlikely to meet the benefit-cost test. For a standard …