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Newslinks: February 2023

March 5, 2023

NEWS

Ongoing emissions from

… personal behaviour

• Flying critical to wellbeing of a third of Australians
https://engage.airservicesaustralia.com/travelling-forward?twclid=23i4cwgl49kosekr8otz9c9st7
https://www.airservicesaustralia.com/flying-critical-to-wellbeing-of-a-third-of-australians/

• How a Seattle high school student is shining a spotlight on emissions from private jets
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/whatonearth/private-jet-emissions-1.6758495

… the net zero delusion

JET ZERO

• Zero Emission Flight Delivery Group terms of reference
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/zero-emission-flight-delivery-group-terms-of-reference

• UK net zero aviation ambitions must resolve resource and research questions around alternatives to jet fuel
https://royalsociety.org/news/2023/02/net-zero-aviation-fuels-report/

• Aviation biofuel would need half of UK agricultural land, report says
https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/government-the-royal-society-airlines-uk-china-department-for-transport-b2290765.html

• Over £110 million to unlock zero emission guilt-free flights
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/over-110-million-to-unlock-zero-emission-guilt-free-flights

• Scientists pour cold water on UK aviation’s net zero ambitions
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/feb/28/scientists-uk-aviation-net-zero-ambitions-half-farmland-double-renewable-electricity

‘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: In the pipeline
https://www.businesstraveller.com/features/sustainable-aviation-fuel-in-the-pipeline/

• Green Skies Ahead: The Rise of Sustainable Aviation
https://www.environmentalleader.com/2023/02/the-rise-of-sustainable-aviation/

• Flying with biofuels produced from “waste oils” destroys biodiversity
https://stay-grounded.org/flying-with-biofuels-destroys-biodiversity/

• Research forecasts global bio jet fuels market to reach $837.7 million by 2030
https://www.biofuelsdigest.com/bdigest/2023/02/15/research-forecasts-global-bio-jet-fuels-market-to-reach-837-7-million-by-2030/

• Boeing More Than Doubles Sustainable Aviation Fuel Purchase For 2023
https://simpleflying.com/boeing-saf-purchase-double-2023/

• Doubling down on sustainable aviation and protecting our planet
https://www.openaccessgovernment.org/sustainable-aviation-protecting-planet-saf-boeing/153274/

• Why Sustainable Aviation Fuel Could Be The Better Alternative To Carbon Offsetting
https://www.forbes.com/sites/rachelingram/2023/02/16/why-sustainable-aviation-fuel-could-be-the-better-alternative-to-carbon-offsetting/?sh=1176d842138f

• United Airlines, five other companies launch effort to develop sustainable aviation fuel
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/21/united-airlines-sustainable-aviation-fuel.html

• A Sudden Rush to Make Sustainable Aviation Fuel Mainstream
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/21/climate/united-sustainable-aviation-fuel.html

• DSV purchases sustainable fuel for 2023 business air travel
https://www.stattimes.com/aviation/dsv-purchases-sustainable-fuel-for-2023-business-air-travel-1347914

• Sustainable aviation fuel is the answer to decarbonisation
https://www.afr.com/policy/foreign-affairs/sustainable-aviation-fuel-is-the-answer-to-decarbonisation-20230218-p5cljs

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.

• We can’t afford to offset our aviation emissions
https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/31/23579475/aviation-emissions-cost-carbon-offsets-climate-change

• Do The Airlines Have A Credible Program To Cut Their CO2 Levels?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kensilverstein/2023/02/13/do-the-airlines-have-a-credible-program-to-cut-their-co2-levels/

HYDROGEN

Hydrogen-powered aircraft will not have zero emissions, even if hydrogen is produced from renewable electricity, because it will still emit NOx and generate contrail cirrus that have a higher climate impact than CO2 today.

• New consortium to enable zero emission aviation to take off in Aotearoa New Zealand
https://www.airbus.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2023-02-new-consortium-to-enable-zero-emission-aviation-to-take-off-in

• Hydrogen aircraft developers are in for the long haul
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/hydrogen-aircraft-developers-are-long-haul-2023-02-09/

• Study Aims to Understand Role of Hydrogen in Aviation Sector
https://businessnewswales.com/study-aims-to-understand-role-of-hydrogen-in-aviation-sector/

E-FUELS

Even if CO2 emissions can theoretically be reduced down to zero, they would still generate NOx and contrail cirrus that have twice as much climate impact than CO2 today. And e-fuels require even more energy to produce than hydrogen, which would deprive other sectors needing to decarbonise.

• Watch: The potential answer to aviation’s net-zero goals
https://think.ing.com/articles/watch-the-answer-to-aviations-net-zero-goals/

Cutting emissions

… frequent flyer tax

• Would a Frequent flying tax be progressive?
https://theicct.org/aviation-fft-global-feb23/

… alternative travel

RAIL

• Australia’s high-speed rail should be rolled out in small stages with Sydney to Canberra first, experts say
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/feb/24/start-building-now-to-fulfil-sydney-melbourne-high-speed-rail-ambition-labor-urged

… personal behaviour

• The No-Jet Set: They’ve Given Up Flying to Save the Planet
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/06/travel/travel-climate-no-fly-pledge.html

… contrails

• Exploring new routes to net zero flight
https://www.ft.com/partnercontent/etihad-airways/exploring-new-routes-to-net-zero-flight.html

• The easy fix to air pollution linked to planes
https://www.transportenvironment.org/discover/the-easy-fix-to-air-pollution-linked-to-planes/

… legal action

• ASA Ruling on Ryanair Ltd t/a Ryanair Ltd
https://www.asa.org.uk/rulings/ryanair-ltd-cas-571089-p1w6b2.html

… electric flight

• Would you trust an electric aeroplane? These airlines hope you might
https://www.smh.com.au/environment/sustainability/aviation-sector-takes-on-its-biggest-challenge-going-green-20230209-p5cj4m.html

Climate emergency

• Faster, higher, hotter: What we learned about the climate system in 2022
https://www.climatecodered.org/2023/02/faster-higher-hotter-what-we-learned.html

• Every Australian will be touched by climate change. So let’s start a national conversation about how we’ll cope
https://iceds.anu.edu.au/news-events/news/every-australian-will-be-touched-climate-change-so-let%E2%80%99s-start-national

• Qantas accused of ‘ripping off’ customers after posting record $1.4bn half-year profit
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/feb/23/qantas-lower-fares-record-profit-alan-joyce

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Newslinks: February 2023

Ongoing emissions from

… personal behaviour

… aviation policy

… industry greenwash

… supersonic flights

… cargo flights

… airports

… ultra fine pollution

… the net zero delusion

JET ZERO

‘SUSTAINABLE’ AVIATION FUELS

OFFSETS

HYDROGEN

E-FUELS

Cutting emissions

… frequent flyer tax

… alternative travel

RAIL

… personal behaviour

… contrails

… legal action

… electric flight

Climate emergency

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