Ongoing emissions from
… offsets
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.
• Unsafe for takeoff: False solutions will not help aviation sector navigate climate crisis
https://carbonmarketwatch.org/2024/12/16/unsafe-for-takeoff-false-solutions-will-not-help-aviation-sector-navigate-climate-crisis/
CARBON CREDITS
• Aviation emissions scheme set for take-off – but do its carbon credits stack up?
https://www.ftm.eu/articles/aviation-emissions-scheme-thin-air
… greenwashed fuels and engines
‘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.
• Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF): A Critical Analysis, with a Focus on Agriculture, Land, and Food
https://www.nfu.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Sustainable-Aviation-Fuel-NFU-for-website.pdf
• Use sustainable aviation fuels to slow down climate change
https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/entertainment/opinion/article/2001508051/use-sustainable-aviation-fuels-to-slow-down-climate-change
• How is air cargo decarbonising to build a sustainable future?
https://www.stattimes.com/air-cargo/how-is-air-cargo-decarbonising-to-build-a-sustainable-future-1353981
• Air New Zealand Buys SAF For Boeing 777-787s at LAX And SFO
https://simpleflying.com/air-new-zealand-saf-boeing-777-787s-lax-sfo/
• Comstock partners with EFT to boost sustainable aviation fuel yields
https://www.airport-technology.com/news/comstock-eft-sustainable-aviation-fuel/
• Tao Climate Presents Aviation Carbon Removal and SAF Pricing Strategy at Google’s New York Office
https://energy.einnews.com/pr_news/770383348/tao-climate-presents-aviation-carbon-removal-and-saf-pricing-strategy-at-google-s-new-york-office
• Sustainable aviation fuels studies take flight
https://arena.gov.au/news/sustainable-aviation-fuels-studies-take-flight/
• Neste to supply sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) to Air New Zealand marking the airline’s largest purchase of SAF to date
https://www.neste.com/news/neste-to-supply-sustainable-aviation-fuel-saf-to-air-new-zealand-marking-the-airline-s-largest-purchase-of-saf-to-date
• Fueling the Future of Aviation
https://www.seedworld.com/us/2024/12/18/fueling-the-future-of-aviation/
• Can South Korea’s Aviation Industry Pivot to Green Skies?
https://ieefa.org/sites/default/files/2024-12/IEEFA%20Report%20-%20Can%20South%20Korea%27s%20Aviation%20Industry%20Pivot%20Towards%20Green%20Skies_December2024.pdf
• Startup, CarbonFly: Less emissions with Sustainable Aviation Fuel
https://www.renewablematter.eu/en/startup-carbonfly-less-emissions-with-sustainable-aviation-fuel
• Sustainable Aviation: Balancing Between Progress And Preservation
https://www.forbes.com/councils/forbestechcouncil/2024/12/04/sustainable-aviation-balancing-between-progress-and-preservation/
• Sustainable Aviation Fuel and the E-Kerosene Solution
https://www.triplepundit.com/story/2024/sustainable-aviation-fuel-e-kerosene/814676
HYDROGEN
• Challenges, prospects and potential future orientation of hydrogen aviation and the airport hydrogen supply network: A state-of-art review
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0376042123000398
SYNTHETIC FUELS
• Aviation’s Holy Grail: Turning greenhouse gas into green fuel
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/aviations-holy-grail-turning-greenhouse-gas-into-green-fuel/VDC4VLIQYJC3DCLBVDOHURHSNI/
SUPERSONIC AIRCRAFT
• Twice as nice, or double the trouble?
https://theicct.org/supersonic-aircraft-dec24/
… delusional scenarios
NET ZERO 2050
Net zero emissions by 2050 allows ongoing emissions and subtracts from them carbon drawdown needed to cool an already dangerously hot planet
• UK government advised to act on aviation emissions
https://aviationnews-online.com/public/article/uk-government-advised-to-act-on-aviation-emissions
• Net-zero aviation: Transition barriers and radical climate policy design implications
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969723077379?via%3Dihub
• Progress on decarbonising the airline sector has been slow this year, says IATA chief
https://www.greenairnews.com/?p=6460
• Supply Chain Issues Continue to Negatively Impact Airline Performance into 2025
https://www.iata.org/en/pressroom/2024-releases/2024-12-10-02/
… growth in flights
• World Airlines Traffic and Capacity
https://www.airlines.org/dataset/world-airlines-traffic-and-capacity/
TOURISM
• Surging global tourism emissions are driven by just 20 countries – major new study
https://theconversation.com/surging-global-tourism-emissions-are-driven-by-just-20-countries-major-new-study-244036
• What cost-of-living crisis? Luxury travel is booming – and set to grow further
https://theconversation.com/what-cost-of-living-crisis-luxury-travel-is-booming-and-set-to-grow-further-244727
• Changing traveller report 2025
https://www.siteminder.com/changing-traveller-report/#readReport
• Travel Redefined
https://dam.cnt.traveloka.com/d/01jex2fdn47hrz16k4gtwxm8ga.pdf
• Aviation earmarked as key issue by tourism carbon emissions study, entire industry well behind key measures
https://travelweekly.com.au/article/aviation-earmarked-as-key-issue-by-tourism-carbon-emission-study-entire-industry-well-behind-key-measures/
• Tourists called to weigh environmental impact of their travels
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/podcast-episode/tourists-called-to-weigh-environmental-impact-of-their-travels/hhjg5ccdh
• The key step to making your holiday period more environmentally friendly
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/the-one-key-step-to-making-your-holiday-period-more-environmentally-friendly
• Up, up, and away: carbon emissions in the tourism industry on the rise
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/podcast-episode/up-up-and-away-carbon-emissions-in-the-tourism-industry-on-the-rise/
• Drivers of global tourism carbon emissions
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-54582-7
… emissions reduction barriers
• 6 Myths About Sustainable Air Travel
https://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/6-myths-about-sustainable-air-travel/
DECARBON-ISATION’S COST
• New study highlights differing strategies and barriers to decarbonising aviation in UK and Europe
https://www.greenairnews.com/?p=6404
ECONOMIC IMPERATIVE
• ‘Aviation has to grow’ minister tells UK airport leaders
https://travelweekly.co.uk/news/air/aviation-has-to-grow-minister-tells-uk-airport-leaders
Measuring emissions
• EU Launches Flight Emissions Label for Sustainable Air Travel
https://esgnews.com/eu-launches-flight-emissions-label-for-sustainable-air-travel/
• EU launches new flight emissions label
https://www.brusselstimes.com/eu-affairs/1361143/eu-launches-new-flight-emissions-label
• Industry Steps Up Efforts To Understand Non-CO2 Effects Better
https://aviationweek.com/aerospace/emerging-technologies/industry-steps-efforts-understand-non-co2-effects-better
Reducing emissions
… by demand reduction
BEHAVIOUR CHANGE
• I Won’t Feel Good About Flying Until the Airlines Solve This
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/28/opinion/air-travel-airlines-carbon-capture-climate-change.html
• Recasting sustainable summer holidaying: scripts, time experiences, freedom, place change and environmental imprints
https://research-repository.griffith.edu.au/server/api/core/bitstreams/17a32105-b961-46a7-82ed-8f64bac39855/content
• Healthy persuasion: a values-based messaging approach to leisure air travel decision-making
https://research-repository.griffith.edu.au/server/api/core/bitstreams/d49b71f7-6a54-485a-a817-e2f949737f93/content
WORK INCENTIVES
• Shifting air travel demand: a case study on enabling experimentation in surface travel
https://www.academia.edu/124359299/Shifting_air_travel_demand_a_case_study_on_enabling_experimentation_in_surface_travel
FLIGHT COST INCREASES
• Green Skies Ahead: The Cost of Eco-Friendly Air Travel
https://www.devdiscourse.com/article/science-environment/3209580-green-skies-ahead-the-cost-of-eco-friendly-air-travel
• ‘Don’t touch my pocket!’ South African passengers say airlines must pay for reducing their carbon footprint, not them
https://theconversation.com/dont-touch-my-pocket-south-african-passengers-say-airlines-must-pay-for-reducing-their-carbon-footprint-not-them-240456
• UK Aviation to Face $127 Per Ton of Carbon Fine for CORSIA Non-Compliance
https://carboncredits.com/uk-aviation-to-face-127-per-ton-of-carbon-fine-for-corsia-non-compliance/
… with alternative fuels
ELECTRIC AVIATION
• Development, Challenges, and Future Prospects
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/387415274_Electric_Aviation_Development_Challenges_and_Future_Prospects
• Electric ambitions: First flights upcoming in 2025
https://aerospaceglobalnews.com/news/electric-ambitions-first-flights-upcoming-in-2025/
• Hydrogen-electric aviation breakthrough in Brisbane
https://newsroom.bne.com.au/hydrogen-electric-aviation-breakthrough-in-brisbane/
… marginally by
FLIGHT REROUTING
• NASA Tool Curbs Delays, Emissions
https://www.nasa.gov/aeronautics/nasa-flight-tool-curbs-delays-emissions/
The climate emergency
• Climate’s collision course: Science meets politics
http://www.climatecodered.org/2024/12/climates-collsion-course-science-meets.html
• Statement from Vanuatu: Why a Non-Use Mechanism on Solar Geoengineering is urgently needed
https://www.solargeoeng.org/statement-from-vanuatu-why-a-non-use-mechanism-on-solar-geoengineering-is-urgently-needed/
• The world’s ‘biggest’ legal case has just begun – and it is all about climate change
https://www.euronews.com/green/2024/12/02/the-worlds-biggest-legal-case-has-just-begun-and-it-is-all-about-climate-change
