Overview

• On June 30 in Seville, eight countries formed the Sevilla Platform for Action to tax business-class tickets and private jet flights
• Member states include France, Kenya, Barbados, Spain, Sierra Leone, Benin, Somalia and Antigua and Barbuda under the Global Solidarity Levies Task Force
• The European Commission will provide technical support to design, implement and monitor the progressive aviation levies
• Coalition members estimate the aviation tax could raise as much as €187 billion for climate adaptation and fair transitions
• Greenpeace hailed the levy as a key step toward polluter accountability and urged expansion of taxes to oil and gas sectors