Cargo Climate Care “The industry requires positive,
not punitive measures from governments,” he stated. Yet at the moment, Schneider believes there are numerous different national taxes that “do nothing for the environment, the revenue going straight to central government”. National regulators should
instead be accelerating their research and development efforts and promoting alternative fuels, he suggested. “Meanwhile, a consistent
in the aviation industry: investing in new technology; improving efficiency; building and using efficient infrastructure; and seeing positive economic instruments employed to provide incentives for greater environmental sustainability. Reaching the goal of carbon neutral growth by 2020 and a 50
percent real cut in emissions by 2050 will take radical measures, however. Those sorts of targets can only be achieved through the use of alternative fuel technology such as biofuels, Schneider noted. “What we definitely need is a global approach,” he declared. ”The last thing we need is a fragmented, myriad system of regulation and tax systems.
Garnadt: Lufthansa will “assume a leading role in the use of biofuel”
global approach should be maintained under the aegis of the International Civil Aviation Organization,” Schneider concluded.
CRUCIAL IMPORTANCE Also on the subject of biofuels, Lufthansa Cargo chairman and CEO Karl Ulrich Garnadt concluded: “Success in the efforts to reduce significantly the impact of goods transport on the environment is of crucial importance ... Lufthansa Cargo and the entire Lufthansa Group intend to assume a leading role in the use of biofuel in our industry.”
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