Natan Doron

Website Natan is a researcher at the Fabian Society. He writes on environment policy as well as on a range of economic and political issues. Natan was born in Israel and has also lived in China where he worked for Greenpeace.

Teflon Teather’s u-turn in the sky

The curbing of emissions from aviation is an important issue for any government. Not only does aviation stimulate the economy, the market mechanisms often advocated to curb such emissions can impact negatively both on those hoping to fly as well as those economies dependent on the transportation of tourists… The Liberal Democrats were acutely aware of this when pledging to scrap the air passenger duty (APD) during the election as a means of protecting Caribbean voters.