The government has been accused of 'betrayal' after it gave £300m of free ‘pollution permits’ to airline including British Airways, Ryanair and easyJet under a scheme designed to tackle climate change.
The UK’s Emissions Trading Scheme is meant to reduce carbon emissions by forcing big polluters to buy permits for each tonne of carbon they emit.
But data through freedom of information request reveals the UK’s aviation sector was handed more than four million “pollution permits” last year, free of charge.
