Covid-19 and aviation
• Flights in and out of Britain major factor in coronavirus spread, new report shows
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/transport/coronavirus-cases-highly-correlated-with-the-extent-of-air-travel-study-shows-a4464486.html
COVID-19 & CORSIA 2020
• CORSIA baseline change: Aviation’s climate regulation is broken beyond repair
https://stay-grounded.org/corsia-baseline-change-aviations-climate-regulation-is-broken-beyond-repair/
• Crushed by Covid-19, airlines lobby for a break on emissions offsets
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/26062020/airlines-un-coronavirus-carbon-offsets
• CORSIA updates: Baseline decision imminent and new offset programs in the works
https://www.natlawreview.com/article/corsia-updates-baseline-decision-imminent-and-new-offset-programs-works
• ‘Final blow’ to aviation climate plan as EU agrees to weaken rules
https://www.climatechangenews.com/2020/06/09/final-blow-aviation-climate-plan-eu-agrees-weaken-rules/?fbclid=IwAR1Cqcs0Qxf5slq1SHF_s5QnB_WXK1ZGD8v1YEojX-XmqEP9_ADyj2VRIls
• EU confirms its participation in the CORSIA voluntary phase
https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2020/06/25/aviation-emissions-eu-confirms-its-participation-in-the-corsia-voluntary-phase-from-2021-and-chooses-more-ambitious-option-to-calculate-its-offsetting-requirements/
COVID-19 FLIGHT CUTS
• Qantas announces 6,000 job losses and predicts few international flights until July 2021
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/video/2020/jun/25/qantas-announces-6000-job-losses-and-predicts-few-international-flights-until-july-2021-video
• COVID-19’s long-term effects on climate change — for better or worse
https://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2020/06/25/covid-19-impacts-climate-change/
• Is ‘revenge travel’ an environmental disaster waiting to happen?
https://www.euronews.com/living/2020/06/17/is-revenge-travel-an-environmental-disaster-waiting-to-happen
• Air New Zealand to deep store Boeing 777 planes at Alice Springs ‘boneyard’
https://www.traveller.com.au/air-new-zealand-to-deep-store-boeing-777-planes-at-alice-springs-boneyard-h1onaa?fbclid=IwAR3OxXxSJm3zfnUKKuHTutobNtTREfaosEkue0K9-9dCm9IZKYpHuklFQb8
• ‘It is so quiet’: 21 passengers leave Gatwick in one day as air traffic halts
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/02/eerily-quiet-just-21-passengers-at-gatwick-in-one-day-as-air-traffic-plummets-coronavirus
• Flight Free 2020: Climate action group never wanted to succeed this way
https://globalnews.ca/news/7002723/flight-free-2020-climate-action-coronavirus/
• Ryanair boss: Britons know quarantine rules are rubbish
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/jun/08/ryanair-boss-michael-oleary-britons-quarantine-rules-rubbish
• COVID-19 gives us a chance to design an aviation industry fit for the future
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/06/covid-19-sustainable-aviation/
COVID-19 FLIGHT RESUMPTIONS
• Qantas and Jetstar resume domestic flights as coronavirus restrictions ease
https://7news.com.au/travel/qantas-and-jetstar-resume-domestic-flights-as-coronavirus-restrictions-ease–c-1078318
• Trans-Tasman travel bubble: Canberra airport asks people to register interest for New Zealand flights
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/jun/04/trans-tasman-travel-bubble-canberra-airport-australia-asks-people-to-register-interest-for-new-zealand-flights?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
BAILOUTS
• Airline bailouts highlight the debate over how green the coronavirus recovery should be
https://fortune.com/2020/06/27/airline-bailouts-green-pandemic-recovery/
• The green compromise in the Austrian Airlines bailout
https://www.euractiv.com/section/aviation/news/the-green-compromise-in-the-austrian-airines-bailout/
• Virgin Australia’s winning bidder Bain Capital agrees to keep HQ in Brisbane after $200 million incentive
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-06-26/queensland-virgin-australia-coronavirus-pandemic/12397400
• Virgin’s administrator pleads for government support to stop bidders from walking away amid coronavirus crisis
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-06-10/virgin-administrator-plea-government-support-airlines-covid/12338760
• Two remaining bidders for Virgin Australia face race against time to complete deal
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/jun/02/two-remaining-bidders-for-virgin-australia-face-race-against-time-to-complete-deal
• At least 70,000 jobs in UK aviation and aviation supply chains at risk – report
https://www.businesstraveller.com/business-travel/2020/06/10/at-least-70000-jobs-in-aviation-and-aviation-supply-chains-at-risk-report/
• Crisis support to aviation and the right to retrain
https://www.wearepossible.org/latest-news/we-teamed-up-with-aviation-trade-unions-to-tell-the-govt-to-bail-out-people-not-planes
• MPs’ call for airline tax breaks without ‘green strings’ to force emission cuts angers environmentalists
https://inews.co.uk/news/environment/mps-call-airline-tax-breaks-lockdown-emission-cuts-environmentalists-anger-444934
• Committee report condemns behaviour of British Airways
https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/153/transport-committee/news/146878/committee-report-condemns-behaviour-of-british-airways/
• France unveils €15bn in aerospace aid
https://www.euractiv.com/section/aerospace/news/france-unveils-e15bn-in-aerospace-aid-sets-green-goals/
• Airlines and carmakers benefit from UK Covid relief scheme
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/04/airlines-and-carmakers-benefit-from-uk-covid-relief-scheme
• Air France’s bailout ‘climate conditions’ explained
https://www.transportenvironment.org/publications/air-frances-bailout-climate-conditions-explained
• Airline bailouts highlight the debate over how green the coronavirus recovery should be
https://fortune.com/2020/06/27/airline-bailouts-green-pandemic-recovery/
Emissions growth
OFFSETS SCAM
• Relying on carbon offsets in ‘green bailouts’ lets polluting airlines off the hook
https://www.desmog.co.uk/2020/05/28/comment-relying-carbon-offsets-green-bailouts-lets-polluting-airlines-hook?amp&__twitter_impression=true
• International aviation emissions goals both “Critically insufficient
https://climateactiontracker.org/sectors/aviation/
NET ZERO DELUSION
• How companies can get net-zero right
https://www.corporateknights.com/channels/clean-technology/delayed-action-reaching-net-zero-increases-risk-carbon-overshoot-necessitates-costlier-action-later-15935262/
• U.K. announces ‘Jet Zero’ plan to drive down aviation emissions
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-12/u-k-announces-jet-zero-plan-to-drive-down-aviation-emissions
• Net zero momentum tracker – transport report
https://www.climateworksaustralia.org/resource/net-zero-momentum-tracker-transport-report/?fbclid=IwAR0tEGSj65fV7bCNqW8HHY1mRVkiLAuZD_MWgofjLbuXCPolHSyIySpFNaE
• Rolls-Royce signs up to net zero carbon target
https://www.insidermedia.com/news/midlands/rolls-royce-signs-up-to-net-zero-carbon-target
• UN launches push for net-zero emissions by 2050
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-52939325
• The Race to Zero Emissions: bike boom, electric airplanes, and disappointed shareholders
https://qz.com/emails/the-race-to-zero-emissions/1863395/
PARIS NDCs
• Count international flights from UK in emissions targets, urges thinktank
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jun/04/count-international-flights-from-uk-in-emissions-targets-urges-thinktank
CONTRAILS
• Do airplane contrails add to climate change? Yes, and the problem is about to get worse
https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/do-airplane-contrails-add-climate-change-yes-problem-about-get-ncna1034521
AIRPORT EXPANSION
• Southampton Airport plans go to second consultation
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-england-hampshire-52905717?
• Construction to begin on $11 billion Western Sydney airport metro line
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-06-01/sydney-metro-western-sydney-airport-extra-funding-pledged/12306184
Emissions degrowth
GENERAL
• Flying and climate change
https://www.transportenvironment.org/what-we-do/flying-and-climate-change
ALTERNATIVE FUELS
• ZeroAvia claims UK first with flight of electric-powered Piper M350
https://www.flightglobal.com/business-aviation/zeroavia-claims-uk-first-with-flight-of-electric-powered-piper-m350/138968.article
• Lufthansa group to power planes using ‘concentrated sunlight’
https://globetrender.com/2020/06/23/lufthansa-biofuel-concentrated-sunlight/
• This electric plane has flown successfully for 30 minutes – is this the future of flying?
https://europeansting.com/2020/06/12/this-electric-plane-has-flown-successfully-for-30-minutes-is-this-the-future-of-flying/
• Electric plane hits the skies in ‘UK first’ for climate-friendly flight
https://www.businessgreen.com/news/4016849/electric-plane-hits-skies-uk-climate-friendly-flight
• The future of fuel source sustainability with airlines
https://simpleflying.com/fuel-source-sustainability-future/
• Velocys’ £20 Million Fundraising
http://www.globallegalchronicle.com/velocys-20-million-fundraising/
TECH-MYTHS
• COVID-19 gives us a chance to design an aviation industry fit for the future
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/06/covid-19-sustainable-aviation/
TOURISM
• End of tourism?
https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2020/jun/18/end-of-tourism-coronavirus-pandemic-travel-industry
• Morrison government flags incentives for Australians to take domestic holidays to save tourism industry
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/jun/20/morrison-government-flags-incentives-for-australians-to-take-domestic-holidays-to-save-tourism-industry
FUEL TAX
• Taxing jet-fuel still on the radar, despite aviation’s virus woes
https://www.euractiv.com/section/aviation/news/taxing-jet-fuel-still-on-the-radar-despite-aviations-virus-woes/
TICKET TAX
• Passengers to pay a CO2 tax on plane tickets
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/passengers-to-pay-a-co2-tax-on-plane-tickets/45826798
FLIGHT REFRAIN
• 20 Pledges for 2020: Why businesses should be thinking about going flight-free
https://www.independent.co.uk/20-pledges/flight-free-2020-climate-companies-holidays-trains-virtual-meetings-holidays-slow-travel-a9503571.html
• Green Living: How to fly less and love it (video)
https://vimeo.com/428056569
Climate emergency
• World has six months to avert climate crisis, says energy expert
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jun/18/world-has-six-months-to-avert-climate-crisis-says-energy-expert
• Beyond a climate of comfortable ignorance
https://theecologist.org/2020/jun/08/beyond-climate-comfortable-ignorance
• A factor of two: how the mitigation plans of ‘climate progressive’ nations fall far short of Paris-compliant pathways
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14693062.2020.1728209
• Climate worst-case scenarios may not go far enough, cloud data shows
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jun/13/climate-worst-case-scenarios-clouds-scientists-global-heating
• ‘Collapse of civilisation is the most likely outcome’: top climate scientists
https://voiceofaction.org/collapse-of-civilisation-is-the-most-likely-outcome-top-climate-scientists
