EU Law - Aviation Directive Flashcards

1
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% of greenhouse gas attributable to aviation

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3%

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2
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Rising rate of greenhouse gas emissions attributable to aviation

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3 - 4%

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3
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What does CBDR stand for

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Common but differentiated responsibility and respective capability

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4
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What was the international agreement hat sought to combat climate change?

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Kyoto Protocol

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5
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What does CBDR mean?

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Developed countries should do more because contributing longer and greater economic resources to combat

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6
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Article 2(2) Kyoto Protocl

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Annex I countries should pursue emission reductions from aviation and marine bunker fuels

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7
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What agreement delegated responsibillity to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to IAO and IMO?

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Kyoto Protocl

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8
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What are Annex 1 countries?

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Developed

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9
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Non-annex 1 countries

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Developing

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10
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To what two organisations did the Kyoto Protocol delegate responsibility?

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International Aviation Organisation and International Maritime Organisation

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11
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What does ICAO stand for?

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International Civil Aviation Organisation

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12
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What did ICAO project after Kyoto?

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2% reduction per year up to 2020 but then aspirational, and biofuel

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13
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What is an MBM?

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Market-based mechanism

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14
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By what percentage had EU aviation emissions increased between 1990 and 2002/

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+73%

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15
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What measure shows the first step of the EU with regard to aviation emissions?

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Directive 2008/101

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16
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EU Aviation Directive original

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Directive 2008/101

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17
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Directive 2008/101

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EU Aviation Directive

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18
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What did Directive 2008/101 create?

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Emissions market for greenhouse gas emissions

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19
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How many allowances were given free under Aviation D?

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85%

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20
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How much of global aviation emissions did the EU A D cove?

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1/3

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21
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What would happen to persistent non-compliers with EU A D?

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Aircraft seize

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22
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What shows contract law acting as a governance function to ensure compliance with EU measures?

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Aircraft leasing companies wrote in clauses requiring renter to comply with EU A D

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23
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Outline EU A D

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Lading or taking off from EU; emissions across ENTIRE flight; have regard to country of origin

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24
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What was the territorial extension in EU A D?

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Covered all emissions emitted across ENTIRE flight

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25
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How are allowances calculated under EU A D?

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Free allowances based on historic emissions levels - discrimination against developing?

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26
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Name at least two threats made against EU once implications of EU A D realised?

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Take EU to WTO; refuse to negotiate bilaterally, economic sanctions, EU emissions trading scheme prohibition act 2011 etc.

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27
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EU emissions trading scheme prohibition act 2011 general

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US ‘blocking statute’

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28
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EU emissions trading scheme prohibition act 2011 said what of EU A D?

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It was extraterritorial, unilateral and directly infringe on US sovereignty

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29
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Section 2 EU emissions trading scheme prohibition act 2011

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Secretary of Transport needs to prohibit compliance IF against public interest

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30
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Section 3 EU emissions trading scheme prohibition act 2011

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Enforces use of authority for international negotiation to achieve a worldwide approach

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31
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What party originally proposed a much stricter version of EU emissions trading scheme prohibition act 2011?

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Republicans

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32
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EU Decision 377/2013

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Stop the clock

33
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Stock the clock

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EU Decision 377/2013

34
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EU Decision 377/2013 outline

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One year stop for intercontinental flights, derogating to facilitate ICAO agreement

35
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What were the EU waiting for ICAO to do?

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Develop a global market-based measure

36
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ICAO Assembly Resolution 2013

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Agreed to recommend ICAO Assembly in 2016 on global MBM to implement by 2020

37
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Agreed to recommend ICAO Assembly in 2016 on global MBM to implement by 2020

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ICAO Assembly Resolution 2013

38
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In what session was the ICAO Assembly Resolution 2013?

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38th session of the ICAO

39
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What measure shows the original proposed third stage of EU action?

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EU ‘Regional Airspace’ Proposal Com(2013) 722

40
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EU ‘Regional Airspace’ Proposal Com(2013) 722 outline

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Include all emissions in EU airspace, and all flights

41
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What approach is found in the EU ‘Regional Airspace’ Proposal Com(2013) 722?

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Strictly territorial

42
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What measure shows the ACTUAL third stage of EU action?

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Regulation 421/2014

43
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Regulation 421/2014

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Only EU internal flights, with view to resist in 2016

44
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What happens if ICAO make no progress at the 39th Assembly, according to Regulation 421/2014?

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Stop the Clock ends and revert to full scope

45
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What case challenged the legality of EU A D?

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Air Transport Association of America case

46
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In light of what two instruments did the Air Transport Association of America case try to argue EU A D invalid?

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Customary international law and international treaties

47
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What three conditions did the CJEU set down before an international agreement can cause EU 2ndary legislation to be invalid?

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EU bound by agreement, agreement’s nature and logic doesn’t preclude examining EU law in light of it (e.g. not WTO) and provisions are unconditional and sufficiently precise

48
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What three international treaties were referred to in particular in Air Transport Association of America?

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Chicago Convention on Civil Aviation; Kyoto Protocl; Open Skies Agreement

49
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What Convention founded ICAO?

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Chicago Convention

50
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Why was the Chicago Convention not binding on EU?

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EU not a party and Article 1 allows States to regulate airspace and landing aircraft

51
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Why was the Kyoto Protocol not binding on EU?

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NNot sufficiently precise or unconditional

52
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Why was the Open Skies Agreement irrelevant?

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Not a tax on aviation fuel because no link between volume of fuel and amount payable, and no discrimination

53
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What Agreement applied in principle in Air Transport?

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Open Skies Agreement

54
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What was the main principle of customary international law relied upon in Air Transport?

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Freedom of flight over high seas

55
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Article 3(5) TEU

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EU bound to observe entirety of international law

56
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What measure shows EU bound to observe entirety of international law, and thus customary international law valid?

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Article 3(5) TEU

57
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Why was there no breach of customary international law in Air Transport?

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Unlimited jurisdiction within territory when trying to regulate outside behaviour having internal effects (e.g. effects-based jurisdiction).

58
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What case did the CJEU refer to in particular to show no breach of customary international law?

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Poulson v Diva

59
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Poulson v Diva general

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Fish on high seas

60
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Fish on high seas

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Poulson v Diva

61
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Poulson v Diva judgment

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Surrender fish if within EU ports, but not controlling them in carrying out fishing in the first place

62
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Three ways EU action can be seen as reasonable

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Effects-based, action-forcing and only CONTINGENT unilateralist

63
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Two reasons EU action was unreasonable

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Unilateral and didn’t take CBDR seriously

64
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What two sources show EU is only a contingent unilateralist?

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Schrems; Directive on Over the Counter Derivatives

65
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Directive on Over the Counter Derivatives on contingent unilateralist

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Declare 3rd measures equivalent to EU, effectively applied and enforced

66
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Why allow Com to declare 3rd measures are equivalent in Directive on Over the Counter Derivatives?

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Avoids conflict, duplication and encourages negotiation between EU and 3rd

67
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What measure showed the EU starting to take CBDR seriously?

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Proposal Com(2013) 722 - proposed 3rd stage

68
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What were the specific provisions in Proposal Com(2013) 722 showing EU starting to take CBDR seriously?

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Exempt developing countries unless big aviation emitter (responsible for more than 1% total emissions)

69
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According to Sandbag, how many airlines and operators complied with StC?

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89%

70
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What percentage of global aviation emissions did StC control?

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11%

71
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What company does Sandbag think may have even profited from EU A D?

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Ryanair

72
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What two areas were still excluded after Paris Climate Change Agreement?

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Shipping and aviation

73
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What distinction was removed in Paris Climate Change Agreement?

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Annex 1/non-Annex 1 distinction

74
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What was adopted in Paris Climate Change Agreement instead of Annex 1 classification?

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CDBR ‘in light of different national circumstances’

75
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Main issue with Paris Climate Change Agreement

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‘Bottom-up’ approach - nationally determined commitments needed which, when added up, may be inisignificant still

76
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Name a few suggestions of Sandbag for future legislation?

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Control EU airspace AT A BARE MINIMUM, reinstate full scope ASAP, phase out free allocation, impose fines on non-compliers and require Member commitment to spent ETS revenue on climate mitigation

77
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Lindenthal

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Hard power is counterproductive to directional leadership - EU’s unilateralism led to trade conflict and removal of provision concerning geographical scope of aviation D to international emissions

78
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What two things does Lindenthal believe EU’s unilateralism led to?

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Trade conflict and removal of provision concerning geographical scope of aviation D to international emissions