Abstract
This paper discusses the possible involvement of contrail radiation in the scheme of the EU ETS to decrease aviation impact on the global Earth's radiation balance. The main goal of this involvement should be the lowering of aviation radiation balance without any further costs for aviation operators. This fact should encourage further research of this possibility due to this being a "win - win" scenario. Lowering the aviation impact on the radiation balance with lower costs than only the charges dependent on the EU ETS scheme, which nowadays covers only emissions of CO2.
Highlights
The goals of the Kyoto protocol were taken on by the European Union (EU) in 1998
The real goal should be the minimization of the impact of human activities on the radiative balance of the Earths atmosphere
Aviation has a negative impact on global Earths radiation balance
Summary
The goals of the Kyoto protocol were taken on by the EU in 1998. the Kyoto protocol tackles only the emissions of greenhouse gases, it is important to stress that lowering the emissions of greenhouse gases is not the main purpose of the Kyoto Protocol. Aviation has a negative impact on global Earths radiation balance One part of this negative impact is the production of greenhouse gases, mainly CO2. Clouds let through radiation from the upper atmosphere and from the Sun, but reflect radiation which is coming from Earth As such it is conserving energy in the Earths atmosphere, and, through this, its increasing the volume of energy on one side of the global Earths radiation balance equation (Haywood et al, 2009). This is the reason why aviation’s contribution to the global Earths radiation misbalance is more important than any other emission which would be of an equal amount. For more details see Blockley (2010), Chapter 304
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