Source · Select Committees · Environmental Audit Committee
Recommendation 12
12
Deferred
Include specific noise pollution targets for flights within updated Airports National Policy Statement
Recommendation
The Government should ensure that it is actively working to minimise and mitigate all impacts of noise pollution on relevant populations caused through flying. It should also include a target, within the new ANPS, on the level of acceptable noise from flights both individually and cumulatively. The Government should set out this target in the response to this report. (Recommendation, Paragraph 59)
Government Response Summary
The government entirely deflects the recommendation on noise pollution mitigation and setting noise targets in the ANPS by discussing its use of carbon markets (UK ETS, CORSIA) to drive CO2 decarbonisation in the aviation sector.
Government Response
Deferred
HM Government
Deferred
As noted in response to recommendation 11, the Government uses carbon markets, such as the UK ETS and CORSIA, to drive decarbonisation of the aviation sector. By pricing CO2 emissions, market-based measures can drive cost-effective and technology-agnostic emissions reductions, making operational efficiencies, sustainable aviation fuel and zero emission flight more economically attractive. They also implement the ‘polluter pays’ principle – that those who engage in activity that has an environmental impact should bear the cost of that impact.