
Ongoing emissions from
… demand growth
QANTAS
• Australia’s GHG – just ten high polluting facilities have created a third of Australian’s ‘safeguard’ emissions, says report
https://cosmosmagazine.com/earth/safeguard-mechanism-emissions-list-lng/
… non-CO2 emissions
CONTRAILS
• Op-Ed: Aviation must not delay action on non-CO2 global warming impact
https://runwaygirlnetwork.com/2022/10/aviation-delay-non-co2-global-warming/
… 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.
• Budget confirms ‘jet zero’ sustainable fuel council
https://australianaviation.com.au/2022/10/australia-to-establish-jet-zero-sustainable-fuel-council/
• Sustainable aviation fuels – is Australia being left behind?
https://cosmosmagazine.com/earth/sustainable-aviation-fuels-is-australia-being-left-behind/
• Qantas boss Alan Joyce challenges government to invest in sustainable aviation
https://www.theage.com.au/business/companies/qantas-boss-alan-joyce-challenges-government-to-invest-in-sustainable-aviation-20221027-p5bte3.html
• Honeywell to make lower-carbon aviation fuel from ethanol
https://www.euronews.com/next/2022/10/10/biofuels-aviation-fuel
• World Bank emphasises SAF as ‘the main mitigation option’ for air transport emissions
https://centreforaviation.com/news/world-bank-emphasises-saf-as-the-main-mitigation-option-for-air-transport-emissions-1167049
BIOFUELS
• California governor surprises with common sense veto of state aviation greenwash legislation
https://www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/2022/california-governor-surprises-with-common-sense-veto-of-state-aviation-greenwash-legislation/
• France could lead way and make private jets use biofuel, says minister
https://www.connexionfrance.com/article/Practical/Transport/France-could-lead-way-and-make-private-jets-use-biofuel-says-minister
ELECTRIC
• How United Airlines expects electric planes to change the way passengers make travel decisions
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/28/how-united-expects-electric-planes-to-change-the-way-passengers-think.html
… industry denial
GREENWASHING
• Flights of Fancy: Preventing European airlines from making far-fetched climate claims
https://carbonmarketwatch.org/publications/flights-of-fancy-preventing-european-airlines-from-making-far-fetched-climate-claims/
• Airlines are misleading flyers with carbon-neutral claims: study
https://www.moneyweb.co.za/news/international/airlines-are-misleading-flyers-with-carbon-neutral-claims-study/
• European airlines misleading customers with claims of “carbon-neutral” flights – study
https://carbonmarketwatch.org/2022/10/10/european-airlines-misleading-customers-with-claims-of-carbon-neutral-flights-study/amp/
https://carbonmarketwatch.org/flights-of-fancy/
https://carbonmarketwatch.org/publications/flights-of-fancy-preventing-european-airlines-from-making-far-fetched-climate-claims/
… 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.
• How Boom Supersonic Plans To Introduce Sustainable Supersonic Travel
https://simpleflying.com/boom-supersonic-sustainable-supersonic-travel/
• My long haul flight carbon offsetting dilemma
https://i.stuff.co.nz/business/opinion-analysis/130218210/my-long-haul-flight-carbon-offsetting-dilemma
… delusional reduction pathways
NET ZERO 2050
• Nations agree to curb emissions from flying by 2050
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/07/climate/aviation-emissions-net-zero.html
• Climate change: World aviation agrees ‘aspirational’ net zero plan
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-63165607
• UN body ICAO hails empty goal and cheap offsetting scheme to ‘green’ aviation
https://www.transportenvironment.org/discover/un-body-icao-hails-empty-goal-and-cheap-offsetting-scheme-to-green-aviation/
• The UN reached a deal to get aviation emissions to net-zero by 2050, here’s how it works
https://www.buzz.ie/news/world-news/aviation-emissions-net-zero-carbon-28239155
The climate emergency
• Climate crisis: UN finds ‘no credible pathway to 1.5C in place’
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/27/climate-crisis-un-pathway-1-5-c
• Emissions Gap Report 2022
https://www.unep.org/resources/emissions-gap-report-2022
Stopping emissions by
…demand reductions
FISCAL POLICY
• Aviation climate finance using a global frequent flying levy
https://theicct.org/publication/global-aviation-frequent-flying-levy-sep22/
• Proposal for a frequent flyer levy
https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/media.afreeride.org/documents/FFL+Policy+Proposal.pdf
• Aviation climate finance using a global frequent flying levy
https://theicct.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/global-aviation-frequent-flying-levy-sep22.pdf
• Can a frequent flyer tax solve aviation’s carbon challenge?
https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/can-a-frequent-flyer-tax-could-solve-aviation-s-carbon-challenge-20220928-p5blne.html
• Can charging frequent flyers for their carbon solve aviation’s climate problem?
https://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2022/10/can-charging-frequent-flyers-for-their-carbon-solve-aviations-climate-problem/
LEGISLATION
• We’re taking the government to court
https://www.wearepossible.org/latest-news/climate-groups-take-government-to-court-over-dangerous-aviation-strategy
• How the Climate Change Act helped us hold the government to account
https://friendsoftheearth.uk/climate/how-climate-change-act-helped-us-hold-government-account?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=legal-and-planning&utm_content=FY2223-10_lm2210024_net-zero-strategy-government-drops-appeal-enews-october
https://friendsoftheearth.uk/climate/whats-net-zero-strategy-and-why-are-we-trying-fix-it
FLIGHT SHAMING
• You’ll know it when you feel it
https://thenewdaily.com.au/life/2022/10/21/flight-shame-planes-travel-climate/
SHORT HAUL FLIGHT BANS
• Banning super-short haul flights has ‘very little’ impact on reducing aviation emissions, says study
https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/flights-ban-short-haul-carbon-emissions-b2195131.html
• Call for a UK domestic flight ban – but that’s unlikely
https://www.airport-technology.com/analysis/call-for-a-uk-domestic-flight-ban-but-thats-unlikely/
FLYING LESS
• Yearning to fly
https://www.cbc.ca/newsinteractives/features/aviation-emissions-flying-climate-change
• This former pilot says people need to fly less for the sake of the environment
https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/what-on-earth-former-pilot-aviation-emissions-1.6615428
… travel alternatives
RAIL
• Trains over planes: Why the government should encourage domestic train travel
https://www.if.org.uk/research-posts/trains-over-planes-why-the-government-should-encourage-domestic-train-travel/
• Banning flights on UK routes with fast rail links ‘could cut flight emissions by third’
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/oct/12/banning-flights-on-uk-routes-with-fast-rail-links-could-cut-flight-emissions-by-third
• Decarbonising transport in Germany: Policy options to support a shift to rail
https://www.climate-transparency.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Policy-options-to-support-a-shift-to-rail.pdf