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Volume 8, Issue 10 (Suppl)
J Earth Sci Clim Change, an open access
ISSN: 2157-7617
Climate Change 2017
October 19-21, 2017
CLIMATE CHANGE
October 19-21, 2017 | Rome, Italy
4
th
World Conference on
Environmental impact of aircraft emissions and aviation fuel tax in Japan
Rodrigo Gonzalez
Keio University, Japan
T
his investigation analyzed the growing impact of commercial aviation on CO
2
emissions, as well as its potential impact
on climate change. It reviewed the effects of the Japanese Aviation Fuel Tax (koukuukinenryouzei), which has been levied
on fuel loaded into all domestic flights in Japan since 1972. Using a Bayesian structural time series model, based on monthly
observations of fuel consumption between 2004 and 2013 provided by the Ministry of Land, Transport, Infrastructure and
Tourism - Japan, this research estimated the effect that this tax has had on the national demand for aviation fuel. It was
established that the fuel tax has unequivocally reduced the amount of CO
2
emissions from aircraft.
Biography
Rodrigo Gonzalez is a PhD candidate at Keio University, Japan. He has worked on the field of aviation emissions, domestic aviation and regulations in Japan and
carbon and environmental taxes. At present, he is researching on revealed preferences and behavior of flyers and non-flyers toward aviation and the environment,
as well as alternative means of transportation (such as the bullet train, “Shinkansen”) and more recently, the implications of LCC growth for the environment.
rgonzalez@keio.jpRodrigo Gonzalez, J Earth Sci Clim Change 2017, 8:10(Suppl)
DOI: 10.4172/2157-7617-C1-036