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Article

23 Jul 2007

Author:
Fiona Harvey, Financial Times

Consumer standard for carbon offsetting urged [UK]

Airlines and other “carbon-intensive” businesses should be compelled to offer customers the means to offset their environmental impact, a group of MPs will recommend on Monday, in a report that singles out the British Airways scheme as “risible”. Efforts to allow passengers to offset the emissions generated by their flights had so far been unsatisfactory, said the Environmental Audit Committee. But the House of Commons committee also warned of widespread problems in the burgeoning market for offsets...Tim Yeo, chairman of the environmental audit committee, called for better regulation of the market.