Ongoing emissions from
… demand growth
• China Airlines Dedicates Eight Boeing 777F To Transport Kiwi Delicacies To Taipei
https://simpleflying.com/china-airlines-dedicates-eight-boeing-777f-transport-kiwi-delicacies-taipei/
• A flight to Australia for dinner — or 45 minutes in Hawaii? Anything to keep our gold cards
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/d3fea1b2-9450-11ed-a195-2b5c5dce7b9b
• ‘We’ll embarrass people with the data’: Inside the airline industry’s plan to reverse flight ban
https://www.euronews.com/green/2023/01/19/well-embarrass-people-with-the-data-inside-the-airline-industrys-plan-to-reverse-french-fl
FOOTPRINTS
• Scientists reveal best way to measure carbon footprint of airplane travel
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/scientists-reveal-best-way-measure-120200381.html
PRIVATE JETS
• Calls for Taxing Private Jets of the Superrich Are Getting Louder
https://www.treehugger.com/calls-for-taxing-private-jets-are-getting-louder-7091024
• Eco group slams Davos summit as global elites arrive in private jets to talk climate policy
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/eco-group-slams-davos-summit-global-elite-arrive-private-jets-talk-climate-policy
• Flying shame: the scandalous rise of private jets
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/26/flying-shame-the-scandalous-rise-of-private-jets
INDUSTRY LOBBYING
• UK climate minister received donations from fuel and aviation companies
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jan/26/uk-climate-minister-received-donations-fuel-aviation-companies
EMISSIONS TRADING SCHEMES
• Jargon alert – what does a carbon market for transport mean?
https://www.transportenvironment.org/discover/jargon-alert-what-does-a-carbon-market-for-transport-mean/
AIRPORT EXPANSIONS
• Say no to planned Otago airport, academics urge
https://i.stuff.co.nz/environment/climate-news/131068359/say-no-to-planned-otago-airport-academics-urge
… 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.
• How the First Movers Coalition is decarbonizing hard-to-abate industries
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/01/how-the-first-movers-coalition-is-decarbonizing-hard-to-abate-industries-davos-2023/
• Airports need to go Green
https://www.bizzbuzz.news/trendz/airports-need-to-go-green-1188741
• Brussels Airlines flies first flight on sustainable fuel
https://traveltomorrow.com/brussels-airlines-flies-first-flight-on-sustainable-fuel/
• Gulfstream makes first 100% sustainable aviation fuel flight
https://biofuels-news.com/news/gulfstream-makes-first-100-sustainable-aviation-fuel-flight/
• Sustainable land use and viability of biojet fuels
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-022-00990-w
• What Would It Take To Completely Decarbonize Jet Fuel?
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/completely-decarbonize-jet-fuel-210000395.html
• ASU study shows full decarbonization of US aviation sector within grasp
https://news.asu.edu/20221114-solutions-asu-study-shows-full-decarbonization-us-aviation-sector-within-grasp
• Carrier Emirates test flies Boeing 777 on sustainable fuel
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/carrier-emirates-test-flies-boeing-777-on-sustainable-fuel/2023/01/30/75428d86-a07c-11ed-8b47-9863fda8e494_story.html
• Aviation’s best bet for cutting emissions is a new kind of fuel — but there’s nowhere near enough of it
https://news.yahoo.com/aviations-best-bet-cutting-emissions-100000380.html
• 3 solutions helping net-zero aviation take off
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/01/sustainable-aviation-fuels-net-zero-emissions/
HYDROGEN
• Hydrogen-powered planes take off with startup’s test flight
https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/01/19/1067113/hydrogen-planes-test-flight/
• The Use of Hydrogen in the Aerospace Sector
https://www.azom.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=22366
… 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.
• Jetcraft Reaches Carbon Neutrality, It Says
https://aviationweek.com/business-aviation/aircraft-propulsion/jetcraft-reaches-carbon-neutrality-it-says
• Revealed: more than 90% of rainforest carbon offsets by biggest certifier are worthless, analysis shows
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/18/revealed-forest-carbon-offsets-biggest-provider-worthless-verra-aoe
• Qantas, Origin and other Australian companies urged to check effectiveness of overseas rainforest carbon credits
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/jan/20/qantas-origin-and-other-australian-companies-urged-to-check-effectiveness-of-overseas-rainforest-carbon-credits
• Two major airlines eye multi-year carbon credit agreements
https://carbon-pulse.com/188322/
• Ryanair: Low-cost airline warned about misleading carbon offset claims
https://www.euronews.com/green/2023/01/26/ryanair-low-cost-airline-warned-about-misleading-carbon-offset-claims
• Ryanair used misleading sustainability claims, says ACM NL
https://stay-grounded.org/ryanair-used-misleading-sustainability-claims/
• Michael Riegel on Sustainable Business Travel
https://travelradar.aero/michael-riegel-sustainable-business-travel/
… delusional reduction pathways
NET ZERO 2050
• Pathways to net-zero emissions from aviation
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-022-01046-9
The climate emergency
• Assessing ExxonMobil’s global warming projections
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abk0063
• Earth is on track to exceed 1.5C warming in the next decade, study using AI finds
https://amp.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/30/climate-crisis-global-heating-artificial-intelligence
• When will global civilization collapse due to accelerating climate change AND the verified Club of Rome/MIT studies’ global collapse factors?
https://www.joboneforhumanity.org/when_will_human_civilization?fbclid=IwAR2rOHWbdUPEYaaadf7e9mlDI0nXWUyyNBFk-gCfmG_fupBV_aemCdi8jOo
Stopping emissions by
…demand reductions
FISCAL POLICY
• Tax super-rich on private jet travel to fund public transport, says UK charity
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/dec/30/tax-super-rich-private-jet-travel-fund-public-transport-uk-charity
• The rich should pay higher fares to clean up aviation, says Heathrow boss
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/01/17/business/air-fares-davos-sustainable-fuel/index.html
DE-GROWTH
• Net-zero aviation: Time for a new business model?
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0969699722001727?via%3Dihub
ELECTRIC
• Electric planes sound like a fantasy but they may be the future for short-haul in Australia
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/09/electric-planes-sound-like-a-fantasy-but-they-may-be-the-future-for-short-haul-in-australia
SHORT HAUL FLIGHT BANS
• A ban on short-haul flights is the best first step in tackling aviation’s climate problem
https://www.theparliamentmagazine.eu/news/article/short-haul-flight-ban-aviation-climate
TECH EFFICIENCY
• NASA and Boeing Partner To Design Greener, More Fuel-Efficient Airliner of Future
https://scitechdaily.com/nasa-and-boeing-partner-to-design-greener-more-fuel-efficient-airliner-of-future/
PROTEST
• Activists block private jet airport used by WEF attendees to demand that “the rich pay their climate debt”
https://www.debtforclimate.ch/actions/press-release-16-01-2023
• The Shutdown of “Luxury Emissions” Should Be at the Center of Climate Revolt
https://theintercept.com/2022/12/13/climate-protest-private-jets-schiphol-airport/
• Tarras airport proposal faces more opposition as leading academics pen open letter
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/483159/tarras-airport-proposal-faces-more-opposition-as-leading-academics-pen-open-letter
BEHAVIOUR CHANGE
• Youth knowledge and perceptions of climate mitigation
https://www.esri.ie/system/files/publications/RS153.pdf
• The Southwest Airlines Meltdown: Capitalism, Climate Change, and Christmas
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/southwest-airlines
… travel alternatives
RAIL
• High-speed rail will transform Australia: Japanese ambassador
https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/high-speed-rail-will-transform-australia-japanese-ambassador-20230113-p5cc9j.html