Covid-19 and aviation
SPREADING THE VIRUS
• Inside the airline industry’s meltdown
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/29/inside-the-airline-industry-meltdown-coronavirus-pandemic?CMP=share_btn_tw
• Ski, party, seed a pandemic: the travel rules that let Covid-19 take flight
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/30/world/europe/ski-party-pandemic-travel-coronavirus.html
• Risks, resilience, and pathways to sustainable aviation: A COVID-19 perspective
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0969699720305160?dgcid=author
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7492147/
• In-flight transmission of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2
https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/11/20-3254_article
• Even more evidence shows the coronavirus spreads easily on long plane flights
https://www.businessinsider.com.au/evidence-coronavirus-spreads-on-long-airplane-flights-2020-9?amp&r=US&IR=T
COVID-19 FLIGHT CUTS
• Extra facility opened for planes grounded by Covid-19
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-54335931
• Inside the airline industry’s meltdown
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/29/inside-the-airline-industry-meltdown-coronavirus-pandemic
COVID-19 FLIGHT RESUMPTION
• Air passenger forecasts: potential paths for recovery into the medium- and long-run
https://resources.oxfordeconomics.com/hubfs/Webinar%20presentations/Air-Passenger-Forecasts-potential-paths-for-recovery-into-medium-and-long-run.pdf
COVID-19 BAILOUTS
• Analysis: Aviation industry Coronavirus bailouts contradict Governments’ climate commitments
https://www.desmog.co.uk/2020/07/23/aviation-covid-bailout-climate-contradiction
Emissions de-growth
ALTERNATIVE FUEL
• Sounds Air signs letter of intent to purchase electric planes
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/morningreport/audio/2018765885/sounds-air-signs-letter-of-intent-to-purchase-electric-planes
• UCSC engineers developing all-electric power train for future aircraft
https://news.ucsc.edu/2020/09/electric-aircraft.html
• Airbus reveals plans for zero-emission aircraft fuelled by hydrogen
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/sep/21/airbus-reveals-plans-zero-emission-aircraft-fuelled-hydrogen
• Airbus unveils concepts for zero-emission planes powered by hydrogen
https://www.euronews.com/2020/09/21/airbus-unveils-concepts-for-zero-emission-planes-powered-by-hydrogen
• Sweden becomes a frontrunner in sustainable aviation
https://biofuels-news.com/news/sweden-becomes-a-frontrunner-in-sustainable-aviation/
• Neste and Shell team up to produce sustainable aviation fuel
https://www.flightglobal.com/airlines/neste-and-shell-team-up-to-produce-sustainable-aviation-fuel/140292.article
• Signature, Neste and NetJets partner to accelerate the adoption of SAF
https://www.businessairportinternational.com/news/fuel/signature-neste-and-netjets-partner-to-accelerate-the-adoption-of-saf.html
• Air bp delivers 210 tonnes of sustainable aviation fuel
https://biofuels-news.com/news/air-bp-delivers-210-tonnes-of-sustainable-aviation-fuel/
• “Zero-carbon” aviation remains an unfounded promise
https://stay-grounded.org/zero-carbon-aviation-unfounded-promise/
ALTERNATIVE TRAVEL
• The sun is setting on unsustainable long-haul, short-stay tourism — regional travel bubbles are the future
https://theconversation.com/amp/the-sun-is-setting-on-unsustainable-long-haul-short-stay-tourism-regional-travel-bubbles-are-the-future-140926
FLIGHT TAXES
• France considers massive airline eco-tax
https://onemileatatime.com/france-considers-massive-airline-eco-tax/
• UK citizens’ assembly backs flight taxes to reduce climate emissions
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2254114-uk-citizens-assembly-backs-flight-taxes-to-reduce-climate-emissions/
https://clicca-production.s3.amazonaws.com/media/documents/Chapter_4.pdf
• UK Climate Assembly calls for frequent flyer levy, private jet ban
https://www.climatechangenews.com/2020/09/10/uk-climate-assembly-calls-frequent-flyer-levy-private-jet-ban/
TOURISM
• The low-carbon imperative: destination management under urgent climate change
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0047287520933679
PROTESTS
• October 3rd: Let’s march on airports
https://stay-grounded.org/october-3rd-lets-march-on-airports/
• Protest group XR Thanet target North Thanet MP’s office as ‘climate crime scene’
https://theisleofthanetnews.com/2020/09/26/protest-group-xr-thanet-target-north-thanet-mps-office-as-climate-crime-scene/
FREIGHT
• Now is the perfect moment to decarbonize global trade
https://undark.org/2020/09/10/decarbonize-global-trade/
Emissions growth
TOTAL EMISSIONS IMPACT
• The contribution of global aviation to anthropogenic climate forcing for 2000 to 2018
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1352231020305689?via%3Dihub
• Aviation’s contribution to global warming has doubled since 2000
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2253626-aviations-contribution-to-global-warming-has-doubled-since-2000/
• Aviation contributes 3.5% to the drivers of climate change that stem from humans
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-09/uor-ac3090220.php
• Aviation accounts for 3.5% of global warming caused by humans, new research says
https://www.ecowatch.com/aviation-emissions-global-warming-2647461303.html
• Half of carbon dioxide emitted by airplanes came in last two decades, research shows
https://weather.com/news/climate/news/2020-09-04-airplane-carbon-dioxide-emissions-global-warming-research
• Climate scientists take their closest look yet at the warming impact of aviation emissions
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/17092020/aviation-emissions-climate-change-greenhouse-gas
FLIGHTS TO NOWHERE
• Qantas scenic flight to nowhere could be fastest selling flight in airline’s history
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-09-18/qantas-flight-to-nowhere-sells-out-in-10-minutes/12676570
• Movies, dining on grounded planes: Singaporeans’ counterproposals to SIA’s ‘flights to nowhere’
https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3101725/movie-screenings-dining-grounded-planes-singaporeans
• Are ‘flights to nowhere’ a necessary environmental cost to save the aviation industry?
https://www.eco-business.com/news/are-flights-to-nowhere-a-necessary-environmental-cost-to-save-the-aviation-industry/
OFFSETTING
• Airlines unlikely to require significant amounts of CORSIA offsets for six years, finds Refinitiv analysis
https://www.greenaironline.com/news.php?viewStory=2735
INFRASTRUCTURE
• The dodgy economics behind expanding airports
https://neweconomics.org/2020/09/the-dodgy-economics-behind-expanding-our-airports
• Supply chains generate massive carbon emissions
https://www.eco-business.com/news/supply-chains-generate-massive-carbon-emissions/
• Insight from Brussels EU’s climate goals could disrupt global commodity flows
https://www.spglobal.com/en/research-insights/articles/insight-from-brussels-eu-s-climate-goals-could-disrupt-global-commodity-flows
NET ZERO DELUSION
• Net zero – idle promises?
http://thecorner.eu/news-the-world/net-zero-idle-promises/88714/
• Oneworld member airlines commit to net zero carbon emissions by 2050
https://www.businesstraveller.com/business-travel/2020/09/14/oneworld-member-airlines-commit-to-net-zero-carbon-emissions-by-2050/
DEREGULATION
• Airplane pollution standards lag 10 years behind technology: report
https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/airplane-pollution-standards-lag-10-years-behind-technology-report-2020-09-08/
• Public hearing set on EPA aircraft emissions proposal
https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/business-aviation/2020-09-10/public-hearing-set-epa-aircraft-emissions-proposal
Climate emergency
• Where do we go from here?
https://earther.gizmodo.com/where-do-we-go-from-here-1845026069/amp?__twitter_impression=true
• How to live with the climate crisis without becoming a nihilist
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-09-13/global-warming-climate-change-science-activism-jonathan-franzen
