Covid-19 and aviation
TOURISM
• Tourism’s collapse could trigger next stage of the crisis
https://www.ft.com/content/2ddda9de-cd76-4969-a9dd-ce314fb6d38e
• Travel after COVID-19: Why we need to change the way we travel
https://www.traveller.com.au/travel-after-covid19-why-we-need-to-change-the-way-we-travel-h1py2e
VIRUS SPREAD
• Evaluating the effectiveness of travel bans
https://iiasa.ac.at/web/home/about/news/200803-effectiveness-of-travel-bans.html
EMISSIONS
• Up to 90 percent fewer condensation trails due to reduced air traffic over Europe
https://www.dlr.de/content/en/articles/news/2020/02/20200520_fewer-condensation-trails-due-to-reduced-air-traffic.html
• Coronavirus shutdown pushes greenhouse gas emissions to 22-year low
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/coronavirus-shutdown-pushes-greenhouse-gas-emissions-to-22-year-low-20200830-p55qow.html
RESPONSE GROWTH GREENWASH
• Could the Covid-19 outbreak prompt a sustainability reset in aviation?
https://www.airport-technology.com/features/aviation-sustainability/
Emissions growth
NET ZERO 2050
• Far-reaching climate change risks to Australia must be reduced and managed
https://www.australianclimateroundtable.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/ACR_statement_on_climate_impacts-August_2020.pdf
FLIGHT REBOUND
• Air travel to bounce back faster in domestic markets, industry forecasts
https://www.climatechangenews.com/2020/07/31/air-travel-bounce-back-faster-domestic-markets-industry-forecasts/
OFFSETTING SCAM
• Jetblue achieves carbon neutral flying on all domestic services
https://www.airlineratings.com/news/jetblue-achieves-carbon-neutral-flying-domestic-services/
Climate emergency
• Climate tipping points — too risky to bet against
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03595-0
Emissions de-growth
ALTERNATIVE FUEL
• Coalition releases new sustainable aviation fuel guide
http://biomassmagazine.com/articles/17317/coalition-releases-new-sustainable-aviation-fuel-guide
• Business Aviation Coalition releases new sustainable aviation fuel guide; CAAFI new member
https://www.greencarcongress.com/2020/08/20200821-saf.html
• Coalition releases new sustainable aviation fuel guide as industry moves to accelerate use of lower-carbon alternative
https://www.aviationpros.com/engines-components/aircraft-engines/electric-green-engine-technology/press-release/21150887/national-business-aviation-association-nbaa-coalition-releases-new-sustainable-aviation-fuel-guide-as-industry-moves-to-accelerate-use-of-lowercarbon-alternative
• S&P Global Platts launches first sustainable aviation fuel price assessments in Europe
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/sp-global-platts-launches-first-sustainable-aviation-fuel-price-assessments-in-europe-301113057.html
• How EU legislation can drive an uptake of sustainable advanced fuels in aviation
https://www.transportenvironment.org/publications/how-eu-legislation-can-drive-uptake-sustainable-advanced-fuels-aviation
• EC #ReFuelEU initiative wants your views on how to tackle greenhouse gases in aviation
https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-40029053.html
• Commission vows to green EU Aviation with sustainable fuels
https://www.neweurope.eu/article/commission-vows-to-green-eu-aviation-with-sustainable-fuels/
• Neste supplying sustainable aviation fuel to three major US airlines for flights from SFO
https://www.greencarcongress.com/2020/08/20200814-neste.html
• Neste to supply sustainable aviation fuel to three US airlines
http://www.biodieselmagazine.com/articles/2517107/neste-to-supply-sustainable-aviation-fuel-to-three-us-airlines
• Neste and Air bp provide sustainable aviation fuel to European airports
https://www.airport-technology.com/news/neste-air-bp-sustainable-aviation-fuel-2/
• ExxonMobil signs renewable-diesel purchase agreement with global clean energy
https://www.chemengonline.com/exxonmobil-signs-renewable-diesel-purchase-agreement-with-global-clean-energy
• UK scientists develop ammonia-run airplanes that has zero emissions
https://www.techtimes.com/articles/251720/20200811/uk-scientists-develop-ammonia-run-airplanes-that-has-zero-emissions.htm
• First 70-plus seat hybrid electric regional aircraft to fly by 2028
https://globetrender.com/2020/08/31/electric-aviation-group-hybrid-electric-aircraft/
• Eighty years after Hindenburg, startup pitches hydrogen flight
https://i.stuff.co.nz/travel/green-travel/300095712/eighty-years-after-hindenburg-startup-pitches-hydrogen-flight
• “Green” hydrogen: critical to powering a carbon-free future
https://www.nrdc.org/experts/rachel-fakhry/green-hydrogen-critical-powering-carbon-free-future
• Complete switch to hydrogen fuel flights possible by 2050, CSIRO says
https://reneweconomy.com.au/complete-switch-to-hydrogen-fuel-flights-possible-by-2050-csiro-says-49417/
• Opportunities for hydrogen in commercial aviation
https://www.csiro.au/en/Do-business/Futures/Reports/Energy-and-Resources
• Five-year runway to hydrogen power in airports
https://www.csiro.au/en/News/News-releases/2020/Five-year-runway-to-hydrogen-power-in-airports
• Don’t rush into a hydrogen economy until we know all the risks to our climate
https://techxplore.com/news/2020-08-dont-hydrogen-economy-climate.html
ALTERNATIVE TRAVEL
• A new normal: travel and the environment after Covid-19 – video
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/video/2020/aug/10/a-new-normal-travel-and-the-environment-after-covid-19-video
• Covid-19: could the pandemic bolster international rail travel?
https://www.railway-technology.com/features/covid-impact-railways/
FLIGHT REFRAIN
• Half of people will reduce air travel
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/half-of-people-will-reduce-air-travel-b9qdfxpsk?utm_campaign=Carbon%20Brief%20Daily%20Briefing&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Revue%20newsletter
INFRASTRUCTURE OPPOSITION
• Environmental group launches Manston airport opposition ‘guerrilla campaign’
https://theisleofthanetnews.com/2020/08/29/environmental-group-launches-manston-airport-opposition-guerrilla-campaign/
POLICY
• T&E’s vision for the European Green Deal
https://www.transportenvironment.org/publications/te’s-vision-european-green-deal
• Democratic senator wants airplane emission limits in pandemic relief bill
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/energy/democratic-senator-wants-airplane-emission-limits-in-pandemic-relief-bill