De overkoepelende organisatie van Europese vakbonden EurECCA* heeft de ‘Toulouse verklaring’ getekend. Doel is het terugbrengen van uitstoot vanuit de luchtvaart, ofwel koolstofneutraliteit realiseren in 2050.

Dit wordt een fikse uitdaging, vooral investeren in vernieuwde, moderne vliegtuigen die tot een duurzamere vloot leiden is daarbij belangrijk. Die vloot-investeringen moeten gepaard (blijven) gaan met effort steken in goede werkomstandigheden en salarissen van airline crew.
Naast EurECCA tekende ook de Nederlandse staat en 41 andere staten waarvan 27 uit de Europese Unie de Toulouse verklaring. Alsmede luchthavens, vliegtuigbouwers en andere ondernemingen uit de burgerluchtvaart. Samen sterk voor een duurzamere toekomst!

*De European Cabin Crew Association EurECCA is een organisatie die zich op Europees niveau inzet voor cabinepersoneel. Ruim 70% van al het Europese cabinepersoneel is vertegenwoordigd in EurECCA. Als mede-oprichter is de VNC nauw betrokken bij deze belangrijke organisatie.

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EurECCA signed the Toulouse Declaration in favor of carbon neutrality by 2050

At the end of the aviation summit on Friday 4th February, EurECCA* signed the Toulouse
Declaration, along with 42 states, including the 27 members of the European Union and
dozens of professional associations. This text advocates a goal of zero carbon emissions
from air transport by 2050, based on fleet renewal and sustainable aviation fuels.
According Annette Groeneveld, President of EurECCA: “Achieving carbon neutrality by
2050 is a collective challenge, which concerns the entire ecosystem and will require a
major investment effort regarding the civil aviation sector. These investments must also
guarantee high social standarts in terms of working conditions and decent salaries for
aircrews“.

EurECCA asks the European Commission to speed up the implementation of an incentive
policy for the production of sustainable aviation fuels, which are considered to be one of
the best current tools for decarbonising the aviation sector. EurECCA also calls the
European Commission to push for a resolution at the next International Civil Aviation
Organisation (ICAO) assembly, which would universalise this objective of carbon neutrality
by 2050.

*About EurECCA: established in Brussels in 2014, the European Cabin Crew Association, EurECCA, represents,protects and develops the rights and needs of cabin crew all over Europe. It is composed of cabin crew unions from European Union Member States as well as accession and bordering states and represents some 33,000 cabin crew accounting for 70% of all organized cabin crew in Europe. EurECCA has no political connections. EurECCA’s work is around Cabin Crew working conditions, wages, social protection and health and safety at work