France has announced an unprecedented ban on short-haul flights in the name of climate change. Where train journeys of less than two-and-a-half hours exist as an alternative in an effort to ‘reduce carbon emissions,’ air travel will be prohibited.
As an example, the ban will prohibit flights between cities such as Paris and Nantes, and Lyon and Bordeaux.
The decision was implemented two years after French legislators first agreed to the restrictions. The initial proposal was to ban all short-haul flights where train journeys existed within four hours.
France’s Minister for Transport, Clément Beaune, stated the decision is “an essential step and a strong symbol in the policy of reducing greenhouse gas emissions.”
The ban is a “global first that is fully in line with the government’s policy of encouraging the use of modes of transportation that emit fewer greenhouse gases,” Beaune added.
According to Laurent Donceel, interim head of Airlines for Europe (A4E), “banning these trips will only have minimal effects” on CO2 output. France should find “real and significant solutions” to the problem instead, Donceel adds.
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