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Over the past few decades, the aviation sector has been constantly growing, and has consequently been attributing to higher amounts of environmentally unfriendly carbon emissions. Without a doubt, there was no more time to waste to counteract this trend. Amongst the potential options, extending the European cap and trade scheme (EU ETS) to aviation activities and creating a Single European Sky (SES) is not just interesting from an environmental and economic perspective, but also from a legal point of view. With regard to the EU ETS, particularly the ECJ´s ATA-judgment is analysed in greater depth, and is therefore at the centre of attention. This judgment is unquestionably a landmark decision with very controversial global effects. In fact, many scholars, stakeholders, etc have expressed their discontent with respect to the Court´s arguments. The focus of the second central subject (SES) is on the defragmentation of the European airspace. The creation of so-called Functional Airspace Blocks, which can probably be regarded as the key element of the SES, is capable of considerably reducing aviation´s CO2 emissions. Some interesting legal issues (sovereignty and subsidiarity concerns) also arose in this connection. This book shall help to explain the need to act in the context of aviation´s CO2 emissions, and to comprehend the European way of thinking.

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Sebastian Stodulka was born in Graz (Austria). He studied law in Graz and Sevilla (Spain) and completed postgraduate studies in European law at Europa-Institut Saarbruecken (Germany). Currently, he lives and works in Brussels (Belgium).

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