Ongoing emissions from
… delusional reduction pathways
NET ZERO 2050
• Jet fuels emissions scheme proposed as part of bigger climate target for 2035
https://reneweconomy.com.au/jet-fuels-emissions-scheme-proposed-as-part-of-bigger-climate-target-for-2035/
• Australia in Lock-step with UK on Net Zero
https://www.australianflying.com.au/latest/australia-in-lock-step-with-uk-on-net-zero
• Black & Veatch to Advance Carbon-Neutral Aviation in Australia, New Zealand
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230725577533/en/Black-Veatch-to-Advance-Carbon-Neutral-Aviation-in-Australia-New-Zealand
• Australia offers $30 million funding aid to decarbonise aviation sector
https://www.iamrenew.com/green-energy/australia-offers-30mn-funding-aid-to-decarbonise-aviation-sector/
• UK airports say they can reach net zero and still expand. Is it just pie in the sky?
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jul/02/uk-airports-say-they-can-reach-net-zero-and-still-expand-is-it-just-pie-in-the-sky
• Qatar Airways CEO says aviation industry will miss 2050 net zero target
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/06/05/business/qatar-airways-net-zero-aviation/index.html
• Will aviators ever kick their carbon habit?
https://www.economist.com/podcasts/2023/07/06/will-aviators-ever-kick-their-carbon-habit
• A Realistic Path to Net-Zero Emissions for Commercial Aviation
https://www.bain.com/insights/a-realistic-path-to-net-zero-emissions-for-commercial-aviation/
• Is sustainability the key to avert business aviation decline?
https://www.aerotime.aero/articles/sustainability-social-responsibility-business-aviation
• Sustainable Aviation: The Flight Path to Renewable Energy
https://www.energyportal.eu/news/sustainable-aviation-the-flight-path-to-renewable-energy/764/
• Guilt-free flying far from imminent as Co2-emissions facts remain stark
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/the-listener/life/guilt-free-flying-far-from-imminent-as-co2-emissions-facts-remain-stark/VKPB3FRCTVHJBG6LPQC7TOVKUU/
• How to accelerate the decarbonization of aviation
https://europeansting.com/2023/07/24/how-to-accelerate-the-decarbonization-of-aviation/
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.
• Carbon offsetting schemes are ‘fraud’, says major airline CEO
https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/carbon-offsetting-fraud-united-airlines-ceo-greenwashing-b2382122.html
EMISSIONS TRADING SCHEMES
• The UK Sets New Carbon Emission Trading Limits For The Aviation Industry
https://simpleflying.com/uk-new-aviation-carbon-emissions-limits/
• Jet fuels emissions scheme proposed as part of bigger climate target for 2035
https://reneweconomy.com.au/jet-fuels-emissions-scheme-proposed-as-part-of-bigger-climate-target-for-2035/
… flight growth
• Air Travel Forecast to 2030: The Recovery and the Carbon Challenge
https://www.bain.com/insights/air-travel-forecast-interactive/
… 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 Funding Initiative
https://www.energy.gov.au/news-media/news/sustainable-aviation-fuel-funding-initiative
• Sustainable aviation fuels: Potential lagging behind reality
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/07/sustainable-aviation-fuels-potential-lagging-behind-reality/
• Second UK SAF Mandate Consultation – Safe Landing Response
https://safe-landing.org/2nd-uk-saf-mandate/
• Sustainable aviation fuels aren’t the answer; flying less is
https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/sustainable-aviation-fuels-arent-the-answer-flying-less-is/
• United Airlines Produced the Most Emissions Last Year, It Also Used the Most Sustainable Fuel
https://airlineweekly.com/2023/07/united-airlines-produced-the-most-emissions-last-year-it-also-used-the-most-sustainable-fuel/
E-FUELS
• Big potential, early days for CO2 jet fuel
https://www.axios.com/pro/climate-deals/2023/07/17/big-potential-early-days-for-co2-jet-fuel
HYDROGEN
• Evaluation of Hydrogen Supply Options for Sustainable Aviation
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-38145-4_2
… private jets
• I used to ride private planes. Now I’d rather get arrested protesting them
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/20/private-planes-carbon-emissions-abigail-disney
• ‘The environmental impact of private jets is largely underestimated’
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/article/2022/09/13/the-environmental-impact-of-private-jets-is-largely-underestimated_5996731_23.html
• Scottish Greens propose £1k ‘super tax’ on private jet passengers in Scotland
https://www.scotsman.com/news/transport/scottish-greens-propose-ps1k-super-tax-on-private-jet-passengers-in-scotland-4232537
• Tax the Fat Cat Private Jet Class, Invest in Green Transit
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/private-jet-tax
• Ban Private Jets? Or Give Private Jets to All?
https://thebreakthrough.org/issues/energy/ban-private-jets-or-give-private-jets-to-all
…industry denial
GREENWASHING
• Jetting off to the sun? The adverts are selling you a ticket to climate disaster
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/27/airline-emissions-climate-crisis-holiday-advertising
• Aviation Climate Targets, A Mea Culpa, & Industry PR Types Shooting Themselves In The Foot
https://cleantechnica.com/2023/07/14/aviation-climate-targets-a-mea-culpa-industry-pr-types-shooting-themselves-in-the-foot/
Stopping emissions by
… stopping airport expansion
• Halt airport expansion say Government’s climate advisers and AEF
https://www.aef.org.uk/2023/06/28/halt-airport-expansion-say-governments-climate-advisors/
• Ranchi airport: Land losers get info to raise objections to compensation after deadline expires
https://lagatar24.com/ranchi-airport-land-losers-get-info-to-object-to-compensation-payment-after-deadline-expires/
• Stop airport expansion: Rewrite the Government’s disastrous new aviation strategy
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/stop-airport-expansion-rewrite-the-government-s-disastrous-new-aviation-strategy
• Government urged to block Gatwick airport expansion plans
https://www.endsreport.com/article/1829415/government-urged-block-gatwick-airport-expansion-plans
… cutting flight demand
• We are hooked on a toxic transport addiction. Time to break the habit
https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2023-06-29-expert-comment-we-are-hooked-toxic-transport-addiction-time-break-habit
… electric flight
• Green energy tycoon to launch UK’s first electric airline
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jul/17/green-energy-tycoon-to-launch-uk-first-electric-airline
… protest
• Just Stop Oil are right.. the fact that they irritate people is the point
https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/just-stop-oil-are-right-the-fact-that-they-irritate-people-is-the-point/
• UN recommends disruption of traffic with non-violent protest activity
https://actionnetwork.org/groups/un-recommends-disruption-of-traffic/
… growing awareness
• Football and pollution: I have always felt bad because I know what a flight causes
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2023/jul/14/football-and-pollution-i-have-always-felt-bad-because-i-know-what-a-flight-causes
Climate emergency
• An Overheating Planet Requires Extreme Climate Solutions
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-07-28/our-planet-is-warming-fast-and-needs-extreme-climate-solutions
• Monday was hottest day for global average temperature on record, as climate crisis bites
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/04/monday-was-hottest-day-for-global-average-temperature-on-record-as-climate-crisis-bites
• We are damned fools’: scientist who sounded climate alarm in 80s warns of worse to come
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/19/climate-crisis-james-hansen-scientist-warning
• First stage of abrupt climate catastrophe has begun by crossing Arctic tipping point
https://ageoftransformation.org/climate-enters-new-phase-of-catastrophic-feedback-loops/
• Global warming in the pipeline
https://justcollapseorg.files.wordpress.com/2023/05/global-warming-in-the-pipeline.pdf
• ‘Era of global boiling has arrived,’ says UN chief as July set to be hottest month on record
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/jul/27/scientists-july-world-hottest-month-record-climate-temperatures
• Earth needs a world climate crisis organisation, says eminent scientist
https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/david-king-antonio-guterres-government-earth-barry-gardiner-b2383624.html
WARMING INDUCED FLIGHT DISRUPTIONS
• Strong winds cause travel chaos in Sydney as passengers hospitalised after ‘severe turbulence’ on Hawaii flight
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/jul/01/strong-winds-cause-travel-chaos-in-sydney-as-passengers-hospitalised-after-severe-turbulence-on-haiwaiian-flight
• Why Summer Heat Is More Likely to Ground Your Flight Than Cold Weather
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-14/extreme-heat-can-cause-flight-delays-here-s-why-and-what-to-do-about-it
• Delta passengers stuck on plane in extreme heat, prompting US investigation
https://gulfnews.com/business/aviation/delta-passengers-stuck-on-plane-in-extreme-heat-prompting-us-investigation-1.97116385
• Extreme heat forces US airlines to limit passengers and fuel loads
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/23/us-airlines-heat-delays-limit-passengers-fuel
• Extreme Heat Pushes U.S. Airlines to Shed Fuel and Limit Passengers
https://time.com/6296849/extreme-heat-planes-fuel/
