UK Emissions Trading Scheme: Island Communities Impact Assessment (ICIA)
This Island Communities Impact Assessment (ICIA) covers changes to the aviation and maritime sectors under the UK Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) and their potential impact on island communities.
Footnotes
1. Government Response to the Developing the UK ETS consultation
2. Developing the UK ETS consultation
3. Island Communities Impact Assessment: guidance and toolkit
4. Domestic flights, flights from the UK to EEA countries, the UK to Gibraltar and Great Britain to Switzerland flights. The return flights are covered by the EU and Swiss ETS schemes.
5. Developing the UK ETS consultation - March to June 2022
6. Government Response to the Developing the UK ETS consultation
7. ‘Carbon leakage’ is defined as “where production and associated greenhouse gas emissions are displaced in ways that would not have happened if the pricing of emissions across jurisdictions was implemented in an equivalent way.”
8. The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme Order 2020 (legislation.gov.uk)
9. Impacts of carbon pricing on the UK aviation sector
10. UK ETS Business and Regulatory Impact Assessment (BRIA)
11. Developing the UK ETS consultation document
12. Developing the UK ETS: impact assessment (publishing.service.gov.uk)
Contact
Email: emissions.trading@gov.scot