{"id":12752,"date":"2011-10-07T17:59:08","date_gmt":"2011-10-07T21:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=12752"},"modified":"2011-10-07T17:59:08","modified_gmt":"2011-10-07T21:59:08","slug":"carbon-emissions-and-the-caribbean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/10\/carbon-emissions-and-the-caribbean","title":{"rendered":"Carbon Emissions and the Caribbean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-12753\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"co2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/co2.jpg\" alt=\"carbon emissions\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/co2.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/co2-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>On  October 6th, Juliane Kokott, an Advocate General of the European Court  of Justice handed down an opinion in a case that brings aviation, the  environment, taxation and sovereignty face to face.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;\">Just  prior to the judgement a group of 26 countries met in New Delhi, to  make known their concerns about the EU\u2019s approach to taxing aviation  emissions.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting adopted a joint declaration, stating that inclusion of  aviation in EU ETS was \u2018discriminatory\u2019 and a violation of international  law. They indicated also that they will file a formal complaint against  the inclusion of aviation in EU ETS at the November ICAO summit in  Russia that some Caribbean aviation ministers may attend. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alarmingly for the Caribbean&#8217;s tourism sector and the Diaspora, the UK, one of region&#8217;s prime feeder markets, has confirmed that its Air Passenger Duty, a discriminatory ticket tax, will not be adjusted to take account of the EU ETS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[42,100,33],"class_list":["post-12752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-airlines","tag-caribbean-2","tag-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}