Ongoing emissions from
… aviation growth
GROWING EMISSIONS
• EU report issues warning over aviation emissions
https://aircargoweek.com/eu-report-issues-warning-over-aviation-emissions/
… 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.
‘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.
• New report from Biofuelwatch reveals how Neste, the oil major, covers for the damages from their greenwashed biofuel transition.
https://www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/2026/neste-report-pr/
• RTFO and SAF Mandate feedstock materials used for creating low carbon fuels
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/rtfo-and-saf-mandate-feedstock-materials-used-for-creating-low-carbon-fuels
• Researchers Simplify CO2 Conversion For Low-Emissions Aviation Fuel
https://www.pollutiononline.com/doc/researchers-simplify-co-conversion-for-low-emissions-aviation-fuel-0001
• Boeing and Israel’s Technion to develop clean fuel tech to cut carbon footprints
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/boeing-and-israel-s-technion-to-develop-clean-fuel-tech-to-cut-carbon-footprints/ar-AA1VrGJz
• From trash to takeoff: Pilot plant produces 100 kg of sustainable aviation fuel per day from landfill gas
https://techxplore.com/news/2026-02-trash-takeoff-kg-sustainable-aviation.html
• Life-cycle assessment and techno-economic analysis of negative carbon sustainable aviation fuels from paper sludge
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921344926000480
• EU to phase out damaging soy biofuels
https://www.transportenvironment.org/articles/eu-to-phase-out-damaging-soy-biofuels
• The man on a mission to fuel flights with food waste
https://www.thetimes.com/business/entrepreneurs/article/flying-should-be-universal-says-oxford-green-aviation-fuel-startup-hjh8c3w8m
• Singapore sets first ever sustainable aviation fuel levy, as Southeast Asia’s fuel industry grows
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/markets/indices/IQY/pressreleases/235795/singapore-sets-first-ever-sustainable-aviation-fuel-levy-as-southeast-asia-s-fuel-industry-grows/
• Singapore Revolutionizes Travel with New Levy to Fund Cleaner Aviation Fuel, Paving the Way for Greener Flights Starting in 2026
https://www.travelandtourworld.com/news/article/singapore-revolutionizes-travel-with-new-levy-to-fund-cleaner-aviation-fuel-paving-the-way-for-greener-flights-starting-in-2026/
• Singapore Airlines Group expands sustainable aviation fuel investments
https://www.marketscreener.com/news/singapore-airlines-group-expands-sustainable-aviation-fuel-investments-ce7e5dd2dd8af427
• Heathrow boosts 2026 Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) incentive to fly 2% above Government mandate
https://mediacentre.heathrow.com/pressrelease/detail/24780
• Researchers have figured out how to make airplanes fly on landfill gas
https://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2026/02/researchers-have-figured-out-how-to-make-airplanes-fly-on-landfill-gas/
• Neste extends relationship with World Fuel Services ensuring the availability of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) at over 100 airports in Europe
https://www.neste.com/news/neste-extends-relationship-with-world-fuel-services-ensuring-the-availability-of-sustainable-aviation-fuel-saf-at-over-100-airports-in-europe
E-FUELS
• Carbon Neutral Fuels selects Johnson Matthey and Honeywell technologies to accelerate groundbreaking UK e-fuels project
https://matthey.com/media/2026/carbon-neutral-fuels-selects-johnson-matthey-and-honeywell-technologies-to-accelerate-groundbreaking-uk-e-fuels-project
• Next generation sustainable aviation fuels powered by renewable energy
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0961953426002394
HYBRID ELECTRIC FLIGHT
• A solution that could reduce aviation emissions by up to 30 percent
https://www.sintef.no/en/latest-news/2026/a-solution-that-could-reduce-aviation-emissions-by-up-to-30-percent/
… delusional scenarios
CARBON CREDITS & 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.
• Verra Applies First CORSIA Labels to Credits
https://verra.org/verra-applies-first-corsia-labels-to-credits/
• Verra Issues First CORSIA Label for 4.7 Million Carbon Credits
https://www.clearbluemarkets.com/knowledge-base/verra-issues-first-corsia-label-for-4.7-million-carbon-credits
• Willingness to pay for voluntary airline carbon offsets and sustainable aviation fuel
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0965856425004574
• European airlines face soaring emission penalties in 2026 as free ETS allowances end and SAF issues persist
https://aerospaceglobalnews.com/news/european-airlines-ets-emissions-penalties-2026-saf/
• An Aviation Carbon-Offset Deadline Looms, But Credits Are in Short Supply
https://www.wsj.com/articles/an-aviation-carbon-offset-deadline-looms-but-credits-are-in-short-supply-ef775775
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.
• Turbulence Ahead: Effective and Efficient Climate Policy in Aviation
https://www.zew.de/en/publications/turbulence-ahead-effective-and-efficient-climate-policy-in-aviation
• Air Transport Action Group: ‘Rapid action’ needed to achieve net zero by 2050
https://centreforaviation.com/news/air-transport-action-group-rapid-action-needed-to-achieve-net-zero-by-2050-1347374
• Towards True Climate Neutrality for Global Aviation: A Negative Emissions Fund for Airlines
https://www.academia.edu/91041601/Towards_True_Climate_Neutrality_for_Global_Aviation_A_Negative_Emissions_Fund_for_Airlines
• Aviation Can Still Hit Net Zero by 2050, ATAG Says
https://mexicobusiness.news/aerospace/news/aviation-can-still-hit-net-zero-2050-atag-says
• Significant support needed over next five years to achieve net zero, says industry report
https://www.greenairnews.com/?p=8493
Reporting emissions
• Airlines should tell UK customers the carbon impact of flights, watchdog says
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/05/watchdog-urges-airlines-tell-uk-customers-carbon-impact-flights
• Airlines should tell UK customers the carbon impact of flights, watchdog says
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/05/watchdog-urges-airlines-tell-uk-customers-carbon-impact-flights
• UK regulator sets out guidance for providing emissions data to passengers booking flights
https://www.greenairnews.com/?p=8501
• China Expands Carbon Reporting to Airlines and Heavy Industry in Major Climate Disclosure Shift
https://carboncredits.com/china-expands-carbon-reporting-to-airlines-and-heavy-industry-in-major-climate-disclosure-shift/
• Detailed data for climate mitigation
https://airlines.iata.org/2026/02/22/detailed-data-climate-mitigation-0
Reducing emissions
… marginally
• Scrapping business class could halve aviation emissions – new study
https://theconversation.com/scrapping-business-class-could-halve-aviation-emissions-new-study-275474
HYDROGEN
• New EU data reveals the scale of clean hydrogen production in operation and under construction
https://www.hydrogeninsight.com/production/new-eu-data-reveals-the-scale-of-clean-hydrogen-production-in-operation-and-under-construction/2-1-1947265
• Seeing Is Believing: WSU Tool for Visualizing Hydrogen Fuels Airbus Advances
https://fuelcellsworks.com/2026/02/06/energy-innovation/seeing-is-believing-wsu-tool-for-visualizing-hydrogen-fuels-airbus-advances
• A multi-dimensional assessment framework for hydrogen-powered aviation: Carbon reduction and economic feasibility with insights from a regional case study
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0360319926000406
• Safety of hydrogen for transport
https://www.ogci.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/OGCI_DNV_Safety_of_hydrogen_for_transport_exec_summary.pdf
… truth messaging
SUSTAINABLE AVIATION RHETORIC
• Beyond the Rhetoric of “Sustainable Aviation”: A Counterfactual Confrontation
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/400141219_Beyond_the_Rhetoric_of_Sustainable_Aviation_A_Counterfactual_Confrontation
… demand reduction
• Decarbonizing Aviation: What a New Report Reveals About the Industry’s Toughest Trade-Offs
https://www.futura-sciences.com/en/decarbonizing-aviation-what-a-new-report-reveals-about-the-industrys-toughest-trade-offs_25932/#google_vignette
• Reducing Consumption to Avert Catastrophic Global Climate Change: The Case of Aviation
https://www.academia.edu/5253568/Reducing_Consumption_to_Avert_Catastrophic_Global_Climate_Change_The_Case_of_Aviation
• ‘Creating the future of aviation’
https://safe-landing.org/visioning-assembly-2025/
ADVERTISING BANS
• Amsterdam to enact landmark ban on fossil fuel and meat advertising in public spaces
https://www.euronews.com/green/2026/02/06/amsterdam-to-enact-landmark-ban-on-fossil-fuel-and-meat-advertising-in-public-spaces
Climate emergency
• The risk of a hothouse Earth trajectory
https://www.cell.com/one-earth/pdfExtended/S2590-3322(25)00391-4
• Point of no return: a hellish ‘hothouse Earth’ getting closer, scientists say
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/11/point-of-no-return-hothouse-earth-global-heating-climate-tipping-points
• Calls to end climate security secrecy as UK fesses up
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/9169153/calls-to-end-climate-security-secrecy-as-uk-fesses-up/
• Parasol Lost: Recovery plan needed: Global risk management for human prosperity
https://actuaries.org.uk/media/isvotyer/parasol-lost.pdf
