Ongoing emissions from
… aviation growth
MORE FLIGHTS
• FIFA’s Climate Blind Spot: The Men’s World Cup in a Warming World
https://www.sgr.org.uk/publications/fifa-s-climate-blind-spot-men-s-world-cup-warming-world
… greenwashed fuels and engines
On a planet already dangerously hot, just stopping new emissions won’t make us safe. The CO2 already in the atmosphere must also be cut. So using existing CO2 — whether in plants (biofuel), in waste, or via Direct Air Capture combined with hydrogen electrically extracted from water (e-fuels) — to create new CO2 emissions, the so called net zero, carbon neutral technologies and pathways, is totally counterproductive. As are offsets for the same reason.
• Growing sustainably
https://www.aerosociety.com/news/growing-sustainably/
‘SUSTAINABLE’ AVIATION FUELS
The aviation industry uses marketing greenwash and accounting tricks to mislead you into thinking that actual flight emissions from ‘Sustainable’ Aviation Fuel (SAF) are a fraction of those from fossil jet fuel. A jet never burns pure SAF, so a common 50:50 blend with fossil jet fuel doubles claimed emissions. And actual flight CO2 emissions are additionally more than claimed, by the amount of CO2 drawn down in making the fuel. Furthermore SAF still creates non-CO2 emissions twice as warming as actual flight CO2 emissions.
• Here’s Why Aviation’s 65% Sustainable Fuel Target For 2050 No Longer Adds Up
https://simpleflying.com/hereswhy-aviation-65-percent-sustainable-fuel-target-2025-no-longer-add-up
• IATA-ICAO Deepen Cooperation on Boosting Sustainable Aviation Fuels
https://www.iata.org/en/pressroom/2026-releases/06-02-iata-icao-deepen-cooperation-boosting-sustainable-aviation-fuels/
• The Future of Sustainable Aviation Fuel in the Midwestern United States: Finding Alternatives to Crop-Based Biofuels
https://www.wri.org/research/future-sustainable-aviation-fuel-midwestern-united-states-alternatives-crop-based-biofuels
• American Airlines and Google sign record-breaking sustainable aviation fuel agreement
https://news.aa.com/news/news-details/2026/American-Airlines-and-Google-sign-record-breaking-sustainable-aviation-fuel-agreement-OPS-OTH-06/default.aspx
• Exolum to introduce sustainable aviation fuel at Madeira
https://biofuels-news.com/news/exolum-to-introduce-sustainable-aviation-fuel-at-madeira/
• Intermediate and degraded land crops no ‘miracle’ solution for SAF, new study shows
https://www.transportenvironment.org/articles/intermediate-and-degraded-land-crops-no-miracle-solution-for-saf-new-study-shows
• AirPlant One, First U.S. Facility to Produce Sustainable Aviation Fuel at Commercial Scale, Comes Online
https://rbnenergy.com/daily-posts/analyst-insight/airplant-one-first-us-facility-produce-sustainable-aviation-fuel
• Sustainable aviation fuel is no longer just about climate, it is about energy security
https://aerospaceglobalnews.com/news/saf-energy-security-climate-aviation/
• From Waste Oils to Green Hydrogen: The Technologies Powering the Future of Sustainable Aviation Fuel
https://www.marketsandmarkets.com/ResearchInsight/technologies-powering-future-of-sustainable-aviation-fuel.asp
• Aviation’s palm oil problem
https://www.aerosociety.com/news/aviations-palm-oil-problem/
• A practical pathway to lower-emission aviation
https://www.neste.com/news-and-insights/aviation/pathway-to-lower-emission-aviation
• Taking to the skies: How certified sugarcane is powering cleaner aviation
https://bonsucro.com/how-certified-sugarcane-is-powering-cleaner-aviation/
LNG
• AACES 2050 research prompts NASA to pursue LNG for aviation
https://aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org/aaces-2050-research-prompts-nasa-to-pursue-lng-for-aviation/
E-FUELS
• What’s the Long-Term Plan to Decarbonize Aviation?
https://legal-planet.org/2026/06/03/whats-the-long-term-plan-to-decarbonize-aviation/
… delusional scenarios
OFFSETS/CARBON CREDITS
When all sectors need to reduce their emissions to zero, the aviation industry buys/offsets the reductions of others in order to grow its own emissions. When the planet is already dangerously hot, offsets steal carbon drawdown needed to cool the planet to excuse further emissions.
• Aviation industry urges Brussels to drop carbon market plan for global flights
https://brusselssignal.eu/2026/06/aviation-industry-urges-brussels-to-drop-carbon-market-plan-for-global-flights/
• ICAO decision to block Zimbabwe credits reveals a disconnect with Paris Agreement rules
https://carbon-pulse.com/518712/
• Airlines and the carbon market form alliance to unlock supply of CORSIA-eligible credits
https://www.greenairnews.com/?p=9176
• Environmental groups challenge EU’s new carbon removal rules over ‘greenwashing’ risks
https://carbon-pulse.com/521873/
• What an expanded EU ETS coverage could mean for airlines
https://www.greenairnews.com/?p=9210
• Airlines prioritising fuel costs over carbon buying as CORSIA prices slide, says ICAO TAB member
https://carbon-pulse.com/520518/
NET SERO 2050
Net zero emissions by 2050 allows ongoing emissions and subtracts from them carbon drawdown needed to cool an already dangerously hot planet.
• Airline industry chiefs say 2050 net zero goal now unlikely
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/08/airline-industry-chiefs-willie-walsh-2050-net-zero-unlikely
• Aviation leaders gather in Montreal to accelerate climate action
https://www.icao.int/news/aviation-leaders-gather-montreal-accelerate-climate-action
• ICAO Aviation Climate Week wraps up with focus on carbon neutral growth
https://www.icao.int/news/icao-aviation-climate-week-wraps-focus-carbon-neutral-growth
• Hope fades on 2050 net-zero goal as sustainable aviation fuel supplies remain ‘teeny, tiny and embryonic’
https://www.flightglobal.com/archive/2026/06/hope-fades-on-2050-net-zero-goal-as-sustainable-aviation-fuel-supplies-remain-teeny-tiny-and-embryonic/
• Aviation’s 2050 Net-Zero Target Could Slip: ‘The More Likely Outcome’
https://skift.com/2026/06/09/aviations-2050-net-zero-target-could-slip-the-more-likely-outcome/
FUEL EFFICIENCY
• Rolls-Royce in race to perfect engine which will slash cost of air travel
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2219679/rolls-royce-race-perfect-engine-will/amp
Reporting emissions
• Moldova’s aviation sector will report its emissions
https://logos-pres.md/en/news/moldovas-aviation-sector-will-report-its-emissions/
Reducing emissions
… too late
HYDROGEN
• Hydrogen for aviation: A meta-review of surveys and key challenges
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1361920926002282
• The pilot program on comprehensive hydrogen application in China
https://theicct.org/publication/the-pilot-program-on-comprehensive-hydrogen-application-in-china-jun26/
… too little
ELECTRIC PROPULSION
• A review of energy optimization management strategy for hybrid-electric propulsion aircraft
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1270963826000258
… by flight limits
FLIGHT RESTARINTS
• French proposal targets frequent flyers with two-flights-a-year limit
https://aerospaceglobalnews.com/news/france-two-flights-a-year-cap/
… indirectly
ADVERTISING BANS
• ‘The new tobacco’: The cities banning fossil fuel adverts
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260217-the-cities-banning-fossil-fuel-adverts
… by not flying
ALTERNATE TRAVEL
• Rethinking travel – for us and the planet
https://looknearfirst.com
The climate emergency
• Avoiding ‘worse-case’ climate warming is big news. But is it true?
https://pearlsandirritations.com/post/2026/06/avoiding-worse-case-climate-warming-is-big-news-but-is-it-true/
• AI boom means US is now ‘investing more’ in fossil-fuel power than China
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2026-06-01/ai-boom-means-us-is-now-investing-more-in-fossil-fuel-power-than-china/
• ‘An equal and habitable world is possible’: academics set out sweeping vision for planetary survival
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/04/world-inequality-lab-equality-academics-planetary-survival
• Global justice report
https://globaljusticeproject.wid.world/www-site/uploads/2026/06/GlobalJusticeReport_WebsiteVersion.pdf
• Record winter temperatures in Antarctic raise fears over speed of climate breakdown
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/10/record-winter-temperatures-in-antarctic-raise-fears-over-speed-of-climate-breakdown
• BoM forecasts strong El Niño and warns climate change could amplify effects on Australia
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/16/australia-el-nino-bom-bureau-of-meteorology-dry-hot-weather
• ‘At first, the idea does sound crazy’: meet the scientists trying to refreeze the Arctic
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/16/arctic-sea-ice-rethickening-climate-geoengineering
• UK records its hottest June day and France its hottest day ever as heatwave sweeps Europe
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/24/uk-records-hottest-june-day
• Datacentres are growing target of global climate-related legal cases, report finds
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/25/datacentres-facing-increase-in-global-climate-related-legal-cases-report-finds
