Ongoing emissions from
…demand growth
• Airbus signals confidence in recovery as demand bounces back
https://www.ft.com/content/9c71a07a-8c57-4fcc-984c-d32d08059b72
… frequent flyers
• Trends in air travel inequality in the UK: From the few to the many?
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214367X21000466
… tourism
• Billionaires claiming climate leadership should not promote space tourism
https://www.forbes.com/sites/prakashdolsak/2021/07/12/billionaires-claiming-climate-leadership-should-not-promote-space-tourism/
… the Net Zero 2050 target
• UK government plans to slash transport emissions by decarbonizing aviation, trucks and rail
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/14/uk-announces-plan-to-decarbonize-aviation-trucks-rail-.html
• UK environmental committee launches inquiry into curbing aviation, shipping emissions
https://www.spglobal.com/platts/en/market-insights/latest-news/electric-power/072021-uk-environmental-committee-launches-inquiry-into-curbing-aviation-shipping-emissions
• American Airlines commits to setting Science Based Target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions
https://news.aa.com/news/news-details/2021/American-Airlines-Commits-to-Setting-Science-Based-Target-for-Reducing-Greenhouse-Gas-Emissions-CORP-OTH-07/default.aspx
• Net zero aviation plan: government pins hopes on future technologies and fuels delivering ‘clean growth’
https://www.aef.org.uk/2021/07/16/net-zero-aviation-plan-government-pins-hopes-on-future-technologies-and-fuels-delivering-clean-growth/
• American Airlines uses science-based targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
https://www.globaltravelerusa.com/american-airlines-uses-science-based-targets-to-reduce-greenhouse-gas-emissions/
… greenwasher fuels and engines
‘SUSTAINABLE’ AVIATION FUEL
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: Working towards a greener future
https://www.airport-technology.com/features/sustainable-aviation-fuel-working-towards-a-greener-future/
• Coming soon to an airport near you: Sustainable aviation fuel certificates
https://www.greenbiz.com/article/coming-soon-airport-near-you-sustainable-aviation-fuel-certificates
• The future of flying is closer than ever. Sustainable fuel is the key
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/07/the-future-of-flying-is-closer-than-ever-sustainable-fuel-is-the-key
Corporate customers help airlines on journey to affordable sustainable fuel
https://www.flightglobal.com/strategy/corporate-customers-help-airlines-on-journey-to-affordable-sustainable-fuel/144438.article
BIOFUELS
• EU biofuels goals seen behind deforested area as big as the Netherlands
https://news.trust.org/item/20210704214841-rrbxn/
E-FUELS
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.
• Creating zero-emission aviation with hydrogen and electric power
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/07/targeting-true-net-zero-aviation/
HYDROGEN FUEL
Burning hydrogen fuel still creates non-CO2 emissions twice as warming as avoided flight CO2 emissions, and generating enough CO2 emissions-free hydrogen will use more than all the renewable electricity currently generated.
• Green Energy: German engineers want to prepare airports for hydrogen planes
https://stockhead.com.au/energy/green-energy-german-engineers-want-to-prepare-airports-for-hydrogen-planes/
• “We must re-examine the relevance of hydrogen for aviation” Michel Wachenheim, president of the Air and Space Academy
https://www.latribune.fr/entreprises-finance/industrie/aeronautique-defense/il-faut-reexaminer-la-pertinence-de-l-hydrogene-pour-l-aviation-michel-wachenheim-president-de-l-academie-de-l-air-et-de-l-espace-888491.html
… offsets
• Carbon offsets are a delusion
https://johnmenadue.com/carbon-offsets-are-a-delusion/
• Airlines need to do more than plant trees to hit net zero, MPs told
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jul/22/airlines-need-to-do-more-than-plant-trees-to-hit-net-zero-mps-told
… subsidies
FUEL TAX WAIVER
• Corporate jets to escape EU’s ‘green’ aviation fuel tax
https://www.irishtimes.com/business/transport-and-tourism/corporate-jets-to-escape-eu-s-green-aviation-fuel-tax-1.4618545
• EU draft exempts private jets, cargo from jet fuel tax
https://www.argusmedia.com/en/news/2231434-eu-draft-exempts-private-jets-cargo-from-jet-fuel-tax
… infrastructure growth
• Hundreds left homeless in Douala after demolition of airport neighborhood
https://www.modernghana.com/news/1092796/hundreds-left-homeless-in-douala-after-demolition.html
… Covid-19 bailouts
• Qantas on track to collect $2bn of support as Morrison government criticised for not seeking stake
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/jul/22/qantas-on-track-to-collect-2bn-of-support-as-morrison-government-criticised-for-not-seeking-stake
• Capital Markets Investors predict more airline bailouts
https://www.arabianaerospace.aero/capital-markets-investors-predict-more-airline-bailouts.html
Stopping emissions by
… demand reduction
• A frequent flyer levy
https://neweconomics.org/2021/07/a-frequent-flyer-levy
• EU ponders short-haul flight ban
https://www.airport-technology.com/features/should-eu-impose-ban-short-haul-flights/
• Reasons to remain grounded
https://www.odt.co.nz/lifestyle/magazine/reasons-remain-grounded
• 13 grounded holiday destinations to put on your bucket list
https://stay-grounded.org/13-grounded-holiday-destinations-to-put-on-your-bucket-list/
• The multi-hub academic conference: global, inclusive, culturally diverse, creative, sustainable
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frma.2021.699782/full
… airport protests
• 300th Frankfurt Monday demo against aircraft noise – 1,000 people -. “Only when no one comes, is it over!”
https://www.airportwatch.org.uk/2019/11/300th-frankfurt-monday-demo-against-aircraft-noise-1000-people-only-when-no-one-comes-is-it-over/
• The Zapatistas’ grounded travel & anti-airport struggles
https://stay-grounded.org/the-zapatistas-grounded-travel-anti-airport-struggles/
… infrastructure degrowth
• Economy does not grow due to Schiphol expansion
https://www.uecna.eu/economy-does-not-grow-due-to-schiphol-expansion/
• As China’s latest mega airport opens, here are the four airports stopped from expanding
https://www.euronews.com/green/2021/07/01/these-airport-expansion-projects-were-scrapped-due-to-environmental-concerns
… fiscal measures
• Draft shows EU to propose aviation fuel tax in green policy push
https://www.reuters.com/business/sustainable-business/draft-shows-eu-propose-aviation-fuel-tax-green-policy-push-2021-07-04/
• Airlines to be charged more for pollution under EU’s Green Deal
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2021/7/5/airlines-to-be-charged-more-for-polluting-under-eus-green-deal
• Are EU Green Deal aviation targets attainable?
https://www.aviationtoday.com/2021/07/16/eu-green-deal-aviation-targets-attainable/
• EU airlines accuse Brussels of throwing them under the bus – Brexit Britain to profit
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1460500/EU-news-European-airlines-Fit-for-55-climate-change-EU-policy-Brexit-UK-latest
