EU focus on aviation emissions

According to a global trading body, trying to implement a emissions trading scheme on airlines who are travelling inbound and outbound of Europe, will not succeed.
The International Air Transport Association have suggested that implementing such a scheme would increase the tension between the EU and non EU countries, with the US already threatening to challenge the scheme, due the schemes interference with current international aviation agreements.
The proposed scheme would ad an average of £30.00 per long haul flight, or in excess of £5.00 to a short flight, and of course, 136 countries to agree to a scheme that is illegal, before it goes ahead, which could be quite a challenge.
The International Air Transport Association have also suggested that the scheme, by making sure airlines have aquired enough credits for each flight, would cost the industry £1.75billion, or the equivelent of over 60% of last years profits in the industry, and that’s just the 2012 predictions.
Of course arguments from other parties suggest that the field is now unlevel, the trading scheme has been incorporated to provide all corporates with a level of trading which can be sustained, by taking emmissions into mind, yet airlines count for 2% of the worlds emmissions, but don’t feel the need to take part.