Omega Short Course: ATM

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Omega Air Transport in the EU ETS Workshop
Department for Transport, Great Minster House ,
London Thursday 11 December Roger Gardner,
Omega
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Omega role
Government
Industry

• UK academic partnership, led by
• MMU, on aviation sustainability
• One-stop-shop
• Providing sound, impartial, up to date
  information
• Working with key players
• Science, technology operations and economics
• Clarifying the impacts supporting long term
  solutions

NGOs
International
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Aviation environmental challenges

• Challenges
• Climate change
• Air quality
• Noise
• Biodiversity
• Omega contribution
• 40 studies activities
• Building foundation knowledge
• Enabling solutions
• Phase 1 ends March 2009

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How to respond

• Technology advances (1 p.a. fuel efficiency) but
  demand outstripping improvements
• ATM gains (5) 1 years growth
• Operational efficiencies
• Alternative fuels
• ETS and other instruments

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Omega - Air Transport in the EU ETS Workshop
09.30 Welcome and Introduction Session 1 -
Regulatory Policy Aspects Session 2 -
Impacts Session 3 - Broader International
Perspective Session 4 - Roundup Way Forward
17.30 Reception
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Session 1 - Regulatory Policy Aspects
Chair Dr Jonathan Köhler - Senior Scientist,
Fraunhofer Institute for System- and
Innovatsionforschung, Karlsruhe, Germany 09.40
Keynote speech (title tbc) David Batchelor -
Policy Officer, Aviation Safety and Environment
Unit, Directorate General Energy and Transport,
European Commission 10.10 Aviation in the EU
ETS - How will the scheme work? (precise title
tbc) Dr Philip Andrews - Head of Transport
Emissions Team, Department for Energy and Climate
Change, UK 10.40 Legal aspects of including
aviation in the EU ETS (precise title tbc)
Andrew Waite - Partner, Berwin Leighton Paisner
LLP, UK (tbc) 11.10 11.30 Coffee
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Session 2 - Impacts
Chair Jeff Gazzard Aviation Environment
Federation, UK 11.30 Economic and environmental
impacts of including air transport in the EU ETS
Prof Peter Allen University of Cranfield, UK,
Annela Anger 4CMR, University of Cambridge, UK
Discussant Dr Brian Pearce Chief Economist,
IATA 13.00 14.30 Lunch
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Session 3 - Broader International Perspective
Chair Dr Andreas Schäfer - lecturer, Institute
for Aviation and the Environment, University of
Cambridge, UK 14.30 Including aviation in the
EU ETS versus a global trading scheme for
international transport Dr Terry Barker
Director, 4CMR, University of Cambridge, UK
15.00 Global climate impacts from air transport
Dr Marcus Kohler Lecturer, Kings College
London, UK 15.30 16.00 Coffee
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Session 4 - Roundup Way Forward
Chair Alexander Sarac Associate Director,
EcoSecurities, UK 16.00 Panel session and
discussion Andy Kershaw Climate Change
Manager, British Airways Danny Jowers Head of
International Branch, Aviation Environmental
Division, Department for Transport Chris Essex -
Head of Business Development, easyJet Tim
Johnson Director, Aviation Environment
Federation Dr Philip Andrews Head of Transport
Emissions Team, Department for Energy and
Climate Change, UK 17.20 Concluding remarks Dr
Jonathan Köhler Senior Scientist, Fraunhofer
Institute for System- and Innovatsionforschung,
Germany 17.30 Reception