Ongoing emissions from
…expanding infrastructure
AIRPORTS
• Airport Workers Backed By Major Labor Union Protest At LAX To Combat ‘Environmental Racism’
https://www.dailywire.com/news/airport-workers-backed-by-major-labor-union-protest-at-lax-to-combat-environmental-racism
• Ignoring call to halt new airports would be ‘electoral carnage’, Sunak warned
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/sep/03/ignoring-call-halt-new-airports-electoral-carnage-sunak-warned
• Greens’ bill to bring in Brisbane Airport curfew would push up airfares, says aviation expert
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-05/qld-greens-airport-curfew-would-cost-says-aviation-expert/102813618
• Cologne Bonn Airport switches to Neste renewable diesel
https://www.hydrocarbonengineering.com/clean-fuels/04092023/cologne-bonn-airport-switches-to-neste-renewable-diesel/
… 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.
• Green skies ahead if sustainable aviation fuel takes off
https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/business/stockhead/the-ethical-investor-green-skies-ahead-if-sustainable-aviation-fuel-takes-off/news-story/3f19d52b93e2a0b8a2587d3e9518155d
• Air bp scoops Australian Aviation’s sustainability initiative of the year award
https://biofuels-news.com/news/air-bp-scoops-australian-aviations-sustainability-initiative-of-the-year-award/
• Your Next Airplane Flight Could Be Powered by French Fry Oil
https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/your-next-airplane-flight-could-be-powered-by-french-fry-oil/457483
• Lummus launches ethanol-based sustainable aviation fuel technology
https://www.hydrocarbonengineering.com/clean-fuels/08092023/lummus-launches-ethanol-based-sustainable-aviation-fuel-technology/
• What would it take to make aviation green in the EU?
https://www.dw.com/en/what-would-it-take-to-make-aviation-green-in-the-eu/a-66793592
• New E.U. Law Requires 70% of Aviation Fuel to Be Sustainable By 2050
https://asianaviation.com/airbus-team-reaches-finals-of-german-future-prize-for-carbon-capture-tec
• ReFuelEU: European Aviation Industry Hails New Sustainable Fuels Regulation
https://news.gtp.gr/2023/09/15/refueleu-european-aviation-industry-hails-new-sustainable-fuels-regulation/
• Drawbacks of adopting a “similar” lca methodology for U.S. Sustainable aviation fuel (SAF)
https://theicct.org/publication/drawbacks-of-adopting-similar-lca-methodology-us-saf-sept23/
• RFA Encourages GREET Model for Aviation Fuel Standards
https://www.rrfn.com/2023/09/25/rfa-encourages-greet-model-for-aviation-fuel-standards/
• Aviation will need significant government support to decarbonize: WestJet CEO
https://www.cbc.ca/lite/story/1.6971548
• Sustainable aviation fuel: agriculture’s ticket to redemption?
https://www.spglobal.com/commodityinsights/en/market-insights/blogs/agriculture/092123-sustainable-aviation-fuel-agricultures-ticket-to-redemption
• Australia’s sustainable aviation fuel industry prepares for take-off
https://www.csiro.au/en/news/All/Articles/2023/September/sustainable-aviation-fuel
• Biofuels
https://energy.ec.europa.eu/topics/renewable-energy/bioenergy/biofuels_en
• Sustainable energy for aviation: What are our options?
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/09/230920152340.htm
• Can flying ever be sustainable? New developments in aviation explored
https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/can-flying-ever-be-sustainable-new-developments-in-aviation-explored-b2409144.html
E-FUELS
• Jet fuel made with captured CO2 and clean electricity set for take-off
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2394108-jet-fuel-made-with-captured-co2-and-clean-electricity-set-for-take-off/
… demand growth
FREQUENT FLYERS
• Frequent Flying’s Dirtiest Habit: Mileage Runs
https://www.forbes.com/sites/christinero/2023/09/04/frequent-flyings-dirtiest-habit-mileage-runs/?sh=3935cc755f9f
• Delta Is No Longer A Good Enough Airline To Keep Gutting SkyMiles
https://viewfromthewing.com/delta-is-no-longer-a-good-enough-airline-to-keep-gutting-skymiles/
PRIVATE JETS
• I posed as a private jet customer. This is what I was told about emissions
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/private-jet-firms-emissions-carbon-offsetting-possible/
… industry denial
GREENWASHING
• Austrian Airlines misleads consumers about CO₂-neutral flying, Austrian advertising watchdog rules
https://stay-grounded.org/austrian-airlines-misleads-consumers-about-co₂-neutral-flying-austrian-advertising-watchdog-rules/
Stopping emissions by
… flight cuts
• ‘Get used to it’, environmental groups tell aviation industry fighting flight cuts at Schiphol
https://www.euronews.com/green/2023/09/06/get-used-to-it-environmental-groups-tell-aviation-industry-fighting-flight-cuts-at-schipho
… zero emissions flights
ELECTRIC FLIGHT
• Electric Planes: Are They Really The Future Of Flight?
https://www.slashgear.com/1391420/electric-planes-future-of-flight/
… cuts in demand
RATIONING
• Rationing and Climate Change Mitigation
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21550085.2023.2166342
… protest
AVIATION WORKERS
• Aviation workers oppose UK Government’s fossil fuel plans
https://safe-landing.org/fossil-fuel-statement/
Climate emergency
• California legislative committee advances GHG disclosure, climate risk bills to final stage
https://carbon-pulse.com/219915/
• US Open semi-final halted as climate protester glues feet to ground
https://www.smh.com.au/sport/tennis/us-open-semi-final-halted-as-climate-protester-glues-feet-to-ground-20230908-p5e337.html