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There are only around 26,000 commercial airliners in service yet they produce around 3% of all world greenhouse gas emissions. Furthermore, much of their pollution occurs in sensitive higher layers of the atmosphere such as the ozone layer.

A tax on aviation fuel will inspire the rapid development of more efficient engines. Since there are only 26,000 aeroplanes it will be relatively rapid and straightforward to install this new technology, and make a real difference very quickly. This one step can lead in the direction of a 3% reduction in global CO2 emissions. It will also raise funds now to pay for other global warming mitigation measures later.

Currently UK motorists must pay tax on their fuel. Airline companies do not, yet both pollute. This is unjust. Let the polluters pay.

Current signatories

Hamish Cormack, the Petition Creator, joined by:

• what about the ninety% (NOT cars, lorries and aeroplanes)
• Sally Tofton
• Jill Phillips
• Dr.Churchill Al Temimi
• Catharine Stott
• Toby Cantlie
• Dominic Evans
• sue tupling
• bob rayner (polluter pays!)
• Jo Gillibrand
• Jane Blake
• Ann Robinson
• Ros Ince
• Darren Abrahams
• Martin Allbright
• Karen Liebenguth
• Mark Heeley
• Sophie Pullinger
• Roy B Scott
• Maria Cormack
• Jane Kitchen
• Jon Broome
• Graham Smith
• Jill Glover
• Adrian O'Neill
• kerry Kousiounis
• Martin Sandaver
• Rome Godwin
• David B. Taylor
• Lauren Blake
• Neil Tqappenden
• Sandra J Hubbard
• Zoe Porteous
• Elizabeth Clayton
• Annie Rae
• W P Massey
• Catriona Cormack
• Margaret J. Tyzack More
• trisha comrie
• Alastair Wolfe
• Stephen Simpson
• Trevor Sharman
• Neil Tomlinson
• mike zeidler
• Jeffrey Newman
• Malcolm Harrison
• Anna Chopping
• John Carey
• David Keltie
• Bernadette Ryan
• gabriel harrison
• Katie Alcott
• Katy Ladbrook
• Oliver Kenchington
• Anthony Sawyer
• Lisbet Michelsen
• Kit Hammond Stapely
• Amanda Zena Bernacca
• Lesley Morrissey
• Sharon Sulkin
• Mark Newton-Carter
• Louise Harper
• Ian Barnett
• Samantha Jackson
• Karen Gill
• kate verney
• cathy Collymore
• Paul Howell
• Richard Van de Peer
• Liz Philpott
• Mike Tooze
• Elizabeth Haigh
• Celia Dawson
• Dave Barthram
• Helen Compton
• Tony Knowles
• lynne newsome
• MOna Fairholme
• Adam E Phillips
• John Wadsworth
• kim whitbread
• James Porter
• Diana Hughes
• Marje Haughton
• Sarah Berkoff
• A. G. Lovell
• catherine edminson
• Nicky Parkinson
• Tomislav Satchell
• Poppy Michelsen
• Hannah Silcock
• Bob Loft
• Hedevig Blakstad
• Adrian Fry
• Derek R Allum
• David Beighton
• Keith Moyse
• Angela Formby
• Sam Pacheco
• Georgia Havers
• Jeremy Clifton-Climas
• Margaret King
• Tom Tamplin
• Stuart Fyfe
• Stuart Leather
• Dominic Harrison
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