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Anthony Viaux, former pilot: "On private jets, Europe must go all the way with the polluter-pays principle"

While the European Commission's decision to integrate business aviation into the European carbon market puts an end to an unjustified exemption, the former Air France pilot explains, in an op-ed in Le Monde, that applying the same CO₂ price to commercial aircraft remains very insufficient due to the under-occupation of these aircraft.

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Anthony Viaux, former pilot: "On private jets, Europe must go all the way with the polluter-pays principle"

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