LONDON, May 13 (Reuters) - Airlines must take steps to keep
carbon emissions down when flights resume so that the lower
levels recorded during the COVID-19 pandemic can be entrenched,
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Wednesday.
"Inadvertently, the planet this year will (have) greatly
reduced its CO2 emissions ... we need to entrench those gains,"
Johnson told parliament.
"I don't want to see us going back to an era of the same
type of emissions as we've had in the past. Aviation like every
other sector must keep its carbon lower."
He did not directly answer a question about whether airlines
seeking financial support from the government would be required
to meet specific climate goals in return for help.
(Reporting by Estelle Shirbon and Michael Holden, writing by
Alistair Smout; editing by Stephen Addison)