While other sectors rapidly decarbonize, aviation emissions grow largely unchecked. Faced with pending climate regulation, aviation industry actors push to weaken proposals through exemptions and delays. Expanding the European Union’s Emission Trading System (EU ETS)—which caps total sector emissions—to long-haul flights is an opportunity to address the sector’s growing contribution to global warming, but the aviation industry persists its long-standing efforts to oppose its expansion.
In this webinar—part of a series on regulatory capture in the aviation industry—experts will discuss how existing regulations fail to tackle aviation emissions, how the aviation industry has fought stringent regulation, and how the EU can facilitate necessary emissions reductions.
This webinar is open to all, with a focus on corporations, investors, and civil society seeking change in global efforts to regulate the industry’s CO₂ emissions.
Attendees will understand how negative corporate actors are preventing progress and explore opportunities for corporate advocacy to advance an ambitious, expanded ETS for the EU. Attendees will have the opportunity to ask panelists questions at the end of the webinar.
InfluenceMap
Béatrice des BoscsAnalyst
Béa joined InfluenceMap in February 2024 after completing her MSc Climate Change and Finance from the University of Edinburgh. Her dissertation delved into the conceptualization and implementation of the Just Transition by public development banks. At InfluenceMap she works as an Analyst in the transport team, assessing the lobbying activities of corporations and trade associations in the aviation sector.
Transport & Environment
Marte van der GraafAviation Policy Officer
Marte van der Graaf leads T&E's aviation work on economic policies. This includes the revision of the ETS, the taxation of the sector and carbon leakage. Marte studied European Politics and German Language and Literature.
European Commission (DG Climate Action)
Damien MeadowsAdvisor on European and International Carbon Markets
Damien has been involved in developing market-based responses to climate change since 2000, including as Head of the European Commission’s unit for the International Carbon Market, Aviation and Maritime, and as Deputy Head of the unit responsible for the EU ETS from 2006-10. He has worked on the drafting, negotiation and implementation of the EU ETS, ratification of the Kyoto Protocol and other climate-related legislation. He also worked on the negotiation and adoption of the REACH law that comprehensively reformed EU chemicals regulation. Before joining the European Commission he was a solicitor in the UK, working for the UK government and in private practice, as well as for the UNFCCC Secretariat at COP4.