Always on the cutting edge, Sir Richard Branson, president of Virgin Atlantic, has set his company on a course towards further sustainability.

Always on the cutting edge, Sir Richard Branson, president of Virgin Atlantic, has set his company on a course towards further sustainability.

Some European Union countries are raising concerns that efforts to break a deadlock with other major world economies over an EU plan to regulate greenhouse-gas emissions could end up discriminating

London: A British plane, carrying 232 passengers and crew members, has created aviation history by flying from Birmingham to Lanzarote using cooking oil.

European rules forcing all airlines to pay for carbon emissions are within the law, an adviser to Europe's highest court said on Thursday, in the latest stage of a bitter battle between the Europea

Gets legal green signal from top law officer, despite non-EU countries’ combined protest.

Lending support to the European Union plans to charge airlines for carbon emissions, European Union environment commissioner Janez Potocnik emphasised that the Emission Trading Scheme (ETS) was introduced to help ensure it reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 20 per cent below 1990 levels by 2020.

The European Union is standing firmly by its plan to charge airlines, including non-EU airlines, for carbon emissions despite growing international opposition, including from India.

India and 25 other nations including the U.S.

In a first-of-its-kind initiative, member nations of UN aviation body, International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), and other non-European Union (EU) states led by India have come together to