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Air fares may rise as part of a global deal to tackle climate change.
Gordon Brown highlighted aviation as a source of finance for a £60 billion fight against global warming.
Up to £1 billion of Britain's overseas aid budget, or 10 per cent, may also be channelled into climate change projects from 2013.
In a speech at London Zoo, the Prime Minister said a financial deal to address global warming needed to be clinched at the Copenhagen summit in December.
Britain is pledging to meet its share of the economic package and Mr Brown said other funding sources should be explored.
“For example, it is important that aviation and maritime emissions are brought into the Copenhagen agreement,” he said.
Labour doubled air passenger duty in 2007, to £10 for short-haul economy class flights and £80 for business and first class long-haul, and is introducing further rises this and next year which will see a tax of up to £170 for long-haul premium seats.
Aid organisations welcomed the Government taking a lead on climate change but condemned diverting funds away from anti-poverty and health projects.
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If you asked a toddler how to solve all the worlds problems and he replied 'Keep rasing taxes' you'd slap him around the head for being stupid.
Yet we allow this nincompoop to keep depleting our disposable income of scams to pander to G20 leaders and Euro-bosses.
No-one believes that 3rd and 4th world nations will do anything with my tax pounds other than fund civil wars, line the pockets of dictators and fund palaces.
This madman Brown has only a one-size hammer called Tax to hit everything that looks like a nail.
His raving argument that we 'only have 10 years to save the planet' is hysterical in it's infantile reasoning and yet we still allow him to pauperise us and our children for ever.
This 10 year deadline is like WMD in Iraq - it doesn't exist in the mind of anyone except a Tax and Squander PM.
Will someone please get him out of Number 10 and out of our lives forever. PLEASE!
- Chris Williams, Cardiff, 27/06/2009 08:57
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another tax looks like 1 a week good old labour and silence from cameron the wimp
- Mikee, peterborough uk, 26/06/2009 16:24
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Super, price the (hard working) riff-raff out of the air, that'll stop climate change in its tracks! LOL!
- Keith Lonsdale, Doncaster, 26/06/2009 15:38
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Ohhh, another tax. What a novel way of dealing with a problem....
This Government is a dead man walking. Lets have an election and get it over with.
- George, London, 26/06/2009 15:32
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Tosh. You can not fight the sun, with or without a tax.
- Dave Davies, Basingstoke, Hants, 26/06/2009 15:17
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How about closing down the Department for Climate Change and using the money saved to fight climate change?
Or, more usefully, give the money to the NHS or Education departments and build some more hospitals and schools?
- Nobby Clark, Perth, the Scottish one, 26/06/2009 15:06
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The majority of the airfare cost is already Nu Labor government tax. Is Crash Gordon's "dream team" going to tax and waste us out of their recession?!??
- Steveo, London, 26/06/2009 14:12
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