Covid-19 and aviation
SPREADING THE VIRUS
• Report: Covid-19 and peace
http://visionofhumanity.org/app/uploads/2020/06/COVID19-and-Peaceweb.pdf
• Ban airlines from booking middle seats
https://slate.com/technology/2020/07/ban-airlines-from-booking-middle-seats.html
BAILOUT
• Qantas says government support for airlines likely needed beyond March
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/jul/21/qantas-says-government-support-for-airlines-likely-needed-beyond-march
• Analysis: Aviation industry coronavirus bailouts contradict governments’ climate commitments
https://www.desmog.co.uk/2020/07/23/aviation-covid-bailout-climate-contradiction
• The airline bailout is the CARES Act’s biggest debacle
https://prospect.org/economy/airline-bailout-is-the-cares-act-biggest-debacle/
COVID-19 FLIGHT RESUMPTIONS
• Air travel to bounce back faster in domestic markets, industry forecasts
https://www.climatechangenews.com/2020/07/31/air-travel-bounce-back-faster-domestic-markets-industry-forecasts/
COVID-19 FLIGHT RESTRICTIONS
• What if aviation doesn’t recover from covid-19?
https://www.economist.com/the-world-if/2020/07/04/what-if-aviation-doesnt-recover-from-covid-19
• Qantas cancels all international flights until March 2021
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12348043&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nzh_fb&fbclid=IwAR1GtZA02gKuEbv2WDhmEb5XJgkY25PfDzsA4vkfTQQgvXrqbbhTAViE87c
• ‘Very uncertain’: passengers scramble for limited seats on flights to Australia
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/jul/22/passengers-limited-seats-flights-to-australia-cap-arrivals-airlines-cancel
• National cabinet set to cap arrivals to Australia as states look to charge for hotel quarantine
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/jul/09/nsw-may-cap-numbers-of-people-arriving-in-australia-and-charge-for-hotel-quarantine
• Lone Melbourne to Sunshine Coast passenger flies into hotel quarantine under police guard
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-07-09/lone-melbourne-to-sunshine-coast-passenger-in-hotel-quarantine/12437938
• Sydney-Melbourne flights to be scaled back
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6821731/sydney-melbourne-flights-to-be-scaled-back
• Melbourne to Sydney flights cancelled amid Victoria lockdown
https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/health-safety/melbourne-to-sydney-flights-cancelled-amid-victoria-lockdown/news-story/cfffb6ebb9c16d96c4943919d320c250
• Victoria-NSW border closure: airlines to slash Sydney-Melbourne flights across July
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/jul/07/victoria-nsw-border-closure-airlines-to-slash-sydney-melbourne-flights-across-july
Emissions growth
NET ZERO EMISSIONS DELUSION
• Boeing releases 2020 Global Environmental report
https://asianaviation.com/boeing-releases-2020-global-environmental-report/
• How a private jet boss became aviation’s most surprising sustainability champion
https://www.forbes.com/sites/rachelingram/2020/07/02/how-a-private-jet-boss-became-aviations-most-surprising-sustainability-champion/#5c9e9a4c45a4
OFFSETS SCAM
• Dossier: carbon offsetting
https://geographical.co.uk/nature/climate/item/3765-dossier-a-carbon-offsetting-dilemma
• Global carbon offsets market facing ‘watershed moment’: Gold Standard
https://www.spglobal.com/platts/en/market-insights/latest-news/coal/072320-global-carbon-offsets-market-facing-watershed-moment-gold-standard
• Offsetting carbon emissions, one ton at a time
https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/offsetting-carbon-emissions-one-ton-time
AIRPORT EXPANSION
• New Tarras airport will drive rapid increases in greenhouse gas emissions
https://i.stuff.co.nz/business/300064670/new-tarras-airport-will-drive-rapid-increases-in-greenhouse-gas-emissions
• The future of airports a vision of 2040 and 2070
https://www.alumni.enac.fr/global/gene/link.php?doc_id=653&fg=1
• Brisbane Airport opens second runway despite COVID-19 aviation shutdowns
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-07-12/queensland-coronavirus-brisbane-airport-new-second-runway-opens/12438208
AVIATION EMISSIONS STANDARDS
• Regulating airplane greenhouse gas emissions
https://www.americanactionforum.org/insight/regulating-airplane-greenhouse-gas-emissions/
• Trump moves to regulate greenhouse emissions from planes, but critics skeptical
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/07/trump-moves-regulate-greenhouse-emissions-planes-critics-skeptical
• U.S. EPA proposing first-ever airplane emissions standards
https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2020/07/22/business/22reuters-usa-airlines-emissions.html
FREQUENT FLYERS
• The rich are different from you and me; they emit way more carbon
https://www.treehugger.com/the-rich-are-different-from-you-and-me-they-emit-a-lot-more-carbon-5070805
COMPARATIVE FOOTPRINTS
• Climate crisis: Two years of vegan living cancelled out by one long-haul flight, study suggests
https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change-coronavirus-veganism-flight-shaming-flying-greenhouse-gas-emissions-a9524066.html
• The unequal distribution of household carbon footprints in Europe and its link to sustainability
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/global-sustainability/article/unequal-distribution-of-household-carbon-footprints-in-europe-and-its-link-to-sustainability/F1ED4F705AF1C6C1FCAD477398353DC2
CORSIA
• The UN just made it easier for airlines to pollute
https://earther.gizmodo.com/the-un-just-made-it-easier-for-airlines-to-pollute-1844251411/amp?
• Airlines’ climate obligations postponed as UN body endorses industry proposal
https://www.climatechangenews.com/2020/07/01/airlines-climate-obligations-postponed-un-body-endorses-industry-proposal/
• Virus-hit airlines get UN body to ease climate-reduction plan
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/environment-and-energy/virus-hit-airlines-get-un-body-to-ease-climate-reduction-plan
Emissions de-growth
FLIGHT REFRAIN
• Grounding travel policies of organisations webinar
Video: https://youtu.be/zRyFouDGRBg
Powerpoint:https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AhykItx7k1dFhXv6GMJRnmolJxupMWL5/view
Summary:https://stay-grounded.org/webinar-grounding-organisations/
• Flight shaming: how to spread the campaign that made Swedes give up flying for good
https://theconversation.com/flight-shaming-how-to-spread-the-campaign-that-made-swedes-give-up-flying-for-good-133842
• A scientist wanted us to stop flying. Just not like this.
https://grist.org/climate/a-scientist-wanted-us-to-stop-flying-just-not-like-this/
• How to get from Europe to Australia without flying
https://m.dw.com/en/how-to-get-from-europe-to-australia-without-flying/a-49440630
• A new normal: will you stop flying?
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jul/06/a-new-normal-will-you-stop-flying
• One flight is worth a thousand Big Macs: digesting these hard facts killed my appetite for flying
https://thecorrespondent.com/593/one-flight-is-worth-a-thousand-big-macs-digesting-these-hard-facts-killed-my-appetite-for-flying/78506796786-a55e1799
ALTERNATIVE TRAVEL
• ‘People don’t want to fly’: Covid-19 reawakens Europe’s sleeper trains
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/27/covid-19-reawakens-europe-sleeper-trains
• Going local: Australians return to backyard holidays as travel options shrink
https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2020/jul/26/going-local-australians-return-to-backyard-holidays-as-travel-options-shrink
• An analysis of ways to decarbonize conference travel after COVID-19
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02057-2
ALTERNATIVE FUEL
• Greenwashing: Court ruled against airline KLM
https://stay-grounded.org/court-ruled-klm/
• Aviation chiefs seek Tesla-like disruptor to drive carbon clean-up
https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/aviation-chiefs-seek-tesla-like-disruptor-to-drive-clean-up
• Air Transat to reduce environmental footprint with sustainable aviation fuel agreement
https://news.gtp.gr/2020/07/22/air-transat-reduce-environmental-footprint-sustainable-aviation-fuel-agreement/
• Air BP supplies SAF for Airbus flights aircraft for Montreal
https://www.canadianbiomassmagazine.ca/air-bp-supplies-saf-for-airbus-aircraft-bound-for-montreal/
• Air BP supplies Sustainable Aviation Fuel for Airbus delivery flights
https://www.aviationpros.com/gse/fueling-equipment-accessories/fuel-distributors-suppliers-manufacturers/press-release/21146592/air-bp-air-bp-supplies-sustainable-aviation-fuel-for-airbus-delivery-flights
• Key technology for mass-production of lignin-bio-aviation fuels for reducing greenhouse gas
https://eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-07/nrco-ktf071420.php
• Chevron Lummus Global announces successful startup of euglena biofuels project
https://www.hydrocarbonengineering.com/clean-fuels/21072020/chevron-lummus-global-announces-successful-startup-of-euglena-biofuels-project/
• New technology to mass-produce aviation-grade fuels from wood wastes
https://www.azocleantech.com/news.aspx?newsID=27669
• Investment to decarbonise aviation must be ‘supercharged’ in Covid-19 recovery plans, MPs urge
https://www.edie.net/news/6/Investment-to-decarbonise-aviation-must-be–supercharged–in-Covid-19-recovery-plans–MPs-urge/
• Amazon’s flying on recycled fats
https://lmtribune.com/business/amazon-s-flying-on-recycled-fats/article_4474af2c-5feb-5cad-8f25-ce911650c45b.html
• Now is the time to let Sustainable Aviation Fuel take off
https://www.aviationpros.com/gse/fueling-equipment-accessories/fuel-distributors-suppliers-manufacturers/article/21144761/neste-north-america-now-is-the-time-to-let-sustainable-aviation-fuel-take-off
• Neste is first to deliver Sustainable Aviation Fuel via pipeline to San Francisco
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/neste-is-first-to-deliver-sustainable-aviation-fuel-via-pipeline-to-san-francisco-301089274.html
• Greener aviation set for end-of-year lift
https://www.euractiv.com/section/aviation/news/green-aviation-set-for-end-of-year-lift/
• WPIC says decarbonised future for aviation lies in hydrogen fuel cells
https://m.miningweekly.com/article/wpic-says-decarbonised-future-for-aviation-lies-in-hydrogen-fuel-cells-2020-07-15/rep_id:3861
• Can Aerion’s supersonic jet be green? A carbon neutral fuel tie-up hinges on regulatory reform and image as much as technology
https://www.forbes.com/sites/erictegler/2020/07/15/can-aerions-supersonic-jet-be-green-a-carbon-neutral-fuel-tie-up-hinges-on-regulatory-reform-and-image-as-much-as-technology
AVIATION TAXES
• Airlines have enjoyed a free ride for too long – it’s time they paid the price for their role in climate destruction
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/airline-industry-travel-aviation-fuel-tax-carbon-emissions-climate-emergency-a9631921.html
TOURISM RESTRAINT
• Death of the travel agent: Covid-19 an existential threat for an industry without ‘any product to sell’
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/jul/19/death-of-the-travel-agent-covid-19-an-existential-threat-for-an-industry-without-any-product-to-sell
• The sun is setting on unsustainable long-haul, short-stay tourism — regional travel bubbles are the future
https://theconversation.com/the-sun-is-setting-on-unsustainable-long-haul-short-stay-tourism-regional-travel-bubbles-are-the-future-140926
WARMING INDUCED INFRASTRUCTURE FAILURE
• Will planes fly in a hotter world?
https://www.eenews.net/stories/1063576505
• British Airways retires Boeing 747 fleet as Covid-19 hits travel
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/jul/17/british-airways-retires-boeing-747-fleet-as-covid-19-hits-travel
