Ongoing emissions from
… growth in flights
PRIVATE JETS
• Jets, Glitz, and Carbon Hits: 1,000 Private Jets to Fly to Super Bowl
https://carboncredits.com/jets-glitz-and-carbon-hits-1000-private-jets-to-fly-to-super-bowl/
• 3 Ways Taylor Swift’s Carbon Offset For Jet Use Can Make A Difference
https://www.forbes.com/sites/globalcitizen/2024/02/10/3-ways-taylor-swifts-carbon-offset-for-jet-use-can-make-a-difference/?sh=2ec9a37640b2
AIRPORTS
• London is most exposed city in world to air pollution from aviation, study finds
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/27/london-is-city-most-exposed-to-air-pollution-from-aviation-global-study-finds
• Top airlines threaten business cuts if Dublin Airport expansion refused
https://www.independent.ie/videos/top-airlines-threaten-business-cuts-if-dublin-airport-expansion-refused/a880455956.html
… 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 technologies, costs, emissions, policies, and markets: A critical review
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S095965262400920X
• Fat, sugar and trash may all fuel planes by 2050
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2024/02/02/sustainable-aviation-fuel-future/
• Top aircraft lessors sow doubts over green fuel silver bullet
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/top-aircraft-lessors-sow-doubts-over-green-fuel-silver-bullet-2024-02-02/
• 5 Key Steps In The SAF Process: From Biomass Recovery To A Sustainable Flight
https://simpleflying.com/saf-process-key-steps-list/
• Amelia to power all of their flights from Amsterdam Airport Schiphol with blended Neste MY Sustainable Aviation Fuel
https://www.neste.be/en/releases-and-news/aviation/amelia-power-all-their-flights-amsterdam-airport-schiphol-blended-neste-my-sustainable-aviation-fuel
• Sustainable aviation fuel faces headwinds
https://bjtonline.com/business-jet-news/flying/sustainable-aviation-fuel-faces-headwinds
• Carbon-neutral aviation biofuels haven’t been able to compete with petroleum. Until now.
https://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2024/02/carbon-neutral-aviation-biofuels-havent-been-able-to-compete-with-petroleum-until-now/
• Flying on garbage? Fulcrum Bioenergy’s trash talk
https://www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/2024/flying-on-garbage-fulcrum-bioenergys-trash-talkflying-on-garbage/
• Californian Firm And British Airways Owner IAG Ink ‘Largest’ Deal For Sustainable Aviation Fuel
https://www.forbes.com/sites/gauravsharma/2024/02/29/californian-firm-and-british-airways-owner-iag-ink-largest-deal-for-sustainable-aviation-fuel/?sh=539cad6517b9
E-FUEL
E-fuels at scale are decades away. They still generate NOx and contrail cirrus that have twice as much climate impact than CO2 today. They require huge quantities of renewable electricity, only 10% of which would be converted into thrust to move an aircraft.
• E-fuels could complement the diversification of decarbonization options available to aviation
https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2024/02/17/e-fuels-could-complement-the-diversification-of-decarbonization-options-available-to-aviation/
• Making aviation fuel from carbon dioxide, water, and sunlight
https://www.techexplorist.com/making-aviation-fuel-carbon-dioxide-water-sunlight/81291/
DIRECT AIR CAPTURE
• Carbon capture tech a ‘complete falsehood’, says Fortescue chairman
https://www.mining.com/web/carbon-capture-tech-a-complete-falsehood-says-fortescue-metals-chairman/
… delusional emissions reduction 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
• SBTi approves ATR’s decarbonisation targets
https://asianaviation.com/sbti-approves-atrs-decarbonisation-targets/
• Pigs might fly: Australian aviation’s delusional emissions future
https://johnmenadue.com/pigs-might-fly-australian-aviations-delusional-emissions-future/
• The Environmental Pluses and Minuses of Global Aviation
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/environmental-pluses-minuses-global-aviation-174500221.html
• A future for flying, or just hot air?
https://cosmosmagazine.com/technology/energy/a-future-for-flying/
OFFSETTING
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.
• We Wish Buying Carbon Offsets for Your Flight Helped. It Doesn’t.
https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/buying-carbon-offsets-for-your-flight-doesnt-help/
• Just 43% of aviation cargo sector engaged in offsets: survey
https://www.qcintel.com/carbon/article/just-43-of-aviation-cargo-sector-engaged-in-offsets-survey-21882.html
FUEL EFFICIENCY
• Analysis: 5 Mitigation Strategies That Airlines Are Taking Against Climate Related Transitional Risks
https://simpleflying.com/analysis-5-mitigation-strategies-that-airlines-are-taking-against-climate-related-transitional-risks/
Reducing emissions with
… fewer flights
BUSINESS FLIGHTS
• Half of global companies have cut their business flights in two since Covid
https://www.transportenvironment.org/discover/half-of-global-companies-have-cut-their-business-flights-in-two-since-covid/
ALTERNATIVE TRAVEL
• Using Public Transport Can Make Up for Flying Abroad on Holiday: Compensatory Green Beliefs and Environmentally Significant Behavior
https://www.academia.edu/6231097/Using_Public_Transport_Can_Make_Up_for_Flying_Abroad_on_Holiday_Compensatory_Green_Beliefs_and_Environmentally_Significant_Behavior
FLY LESS
• Give Up Flights? Psychological Predictors of Intentions and Policy Support to Reduce Air Travel
https://www.academia.edu/102024292/Give_Up_Flights_Psychological_Predictors_of_Intentions_and_Policy_Support_to_Reduce_Air_Travel
FLIGHT BANS
• Confirmed: Spain to ban short-haul domestic flights
https://www.thelocal.es/20240222/confirmed-spain-to-ban-short-haul-domestic-flights#
… alternative fuels
ELECTRIC FLIGHT
• Weatherwatch: study makes green case for electric planes
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2024/feb/02/weatherwatch-study-makes-green-case-for-electric-planes
… public awareness
PROTEST
• Farmers protest in Cork against growth of air travel as they are asked to cut their emissions
https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2024/02/26/farmers-protest-in-cork-against-growth-of-air-travel-as-they-are-asked-to-cut-their-emissions/
The Climate Emergency
• New UN weather agency chief says rate of global warming is speeding up
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/ap-world-meteorological-organization-baltimore-james-hansen-north-america-b2492342.html
• Federal government approval the final hurdle for mega Queensland coalmine
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/feb/07/winchester-south-mine-queensland-federal-government-approval-emissions-whitehaven
• World scientists’ warning: The behavioural crisis driving ecological overshoot
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.1177/00368504231201372
• The planetary commons: A new paradigm for safeguarding Earth – regulating systems in the Anthropocene
https://www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.1073/pnas.2301531121
• World’s first year-long breach of key 1.5C warming limit
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-68110310
