Children’s Rights Over Flights made a detailed submission to the Government’s Transport Statement of Strategy Consultation on 31st March 2025.
Read the full Children’s Rights Over Flights submission.
The submission assesses that the current Government Transport Statement of Strategy 2023-2025 does not adequately address the State-declared climate emergency, and fails to consider the rights and best interests of children’s futures.
The submission calls on the revised Transport Statement of Strategy to:
- Set clear and binding national climate targets for aviation
- Centre children’s rights and best interests
- Develop International Transport Policy which supports non-aviation modes of international travel
- Implement clear and fair strategies to reduce aviation emissions
- Cap airport flights, including enforcement of the Dublin Airport cap
- Tax aviation fossil fuel to at least a level similar to that of fossil fuel for land transport
- Regulate the aviation industry including a ban on aviation advertising, limits or ban of air freight transport into Ireland of non-emergency items, and ban on most low-occupancy private jet use.
At international level
- Push for meaningful action at EU and international levels to reduce aviation emissions
- Remove jet kerosene tax exemption in the EU
- Make the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) more effective by ensuring no free permits, implementing steep reductions in permits issued, removal of exceptions for cargo/freight aviation and for flights outside the European Economic Area, and inclusion of all climate-related emissions not only CO2.
Here you can read the full Children’s Rights Over Flights submission.
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