Overview

• Spain formally committed on June 30 in Seville to join France, Kenya and Barbados in imposing an ecotax on business-class flight tickets and private jets.
• The measure is part of the UN’s Platform of Action of Sevilla and benefits from European Commission technical support.
• A bilateral meeting between Prime Minister Sánchez and President Macron later today will define the tax’s scope and implementation timetable.
• Backers intend to use the ecotax to harmonize progressive green taxation globally and bolster development finance.
• The decision reverses Spain’s earlier resistance to luxury travel levies after new emissions data spotlighted private jet pollution.