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The EU’s ETS, Trade Wars, Airlines, and the Environment / Joe Marroquin, International Energy, IAEE blog, 18/06/2011http://blog.iaee.org/?p=2244As 2012 fast approaches a decision made by the European Emission’s  Trading Scheme (ETS) in 2008 seems to be nearing:  requiring  participation in the ETS by foreign airlines flying into Europe.  This  requirement has recently started making headlines across the aviation  industry and threatening a potential trade war between Latin America,  North America, China and Europe.  All this, at a time when both the  ETS’s structure and the efficacy is in question and while continental  Europe struggles with significant financial aftershocks from the still  lingering 2008 economic crisis...