Why aviation needs to address its emissions problem now
GreenBiz
JANUARY 7, 2020
Despite myriad efforts, the aviation industry unlikely to succeed in reducing its emissions given the current hurdles. In fact, the case is quite the opposite.
Are Taylor Swift, Kylie Jenner and the like to blame for jet-fueled climate change?
GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 13, 2022
Political leaders should leverage the private jetting industry to drive further advancements in sustainable aviation.
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Conservative Party Given £651k by Aviation Industry
DeSmogBlog
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
The UK’s Conservative Party received £651,000 from the aviation industry between April and June this year amid doubts over the government’s commitment to cutting the sector’s emissions. The data showed aviation was the third largest sector by donations, with finance contributing £1.8 In 2019, Harborne donated £9.7
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Is greener aviation set for take-off?
altenergymag
AUGUST 19, 2020
The aviation industry is synonymous with producing high volumes of carbon emissions. As such, making air transport ‘green' has become a top political priority, with the UK Government recently announcing funding to support these efforts.
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Our response to: “why don’t you start a political party?”
Low Impact
AUGUST 8, 2021
There’s a question we often hear: “why don’t you start a political party?” Political parties write their manifestos, that members of the public read (OK, that part is pure fantasy). There are huge subsidies for oil companies to find more fossil fuels; and no tax on aviation fuel or VAT on flights etc. We live in a democracy.’.
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'Golden opportunity': MPs urge government to 'supercharge' a green recovery for aviation
Business Green
JULY 19, 2020
Cross party group of 35 MPs call on Chancellor to invest £500m towards developing green aviation fuels and technologies in wake of Covid-19. Decarbonising aviation provides an opportunity for the UK to take a lead in this important global sector, and the sector is ready to work with Government to make this happen," the letter states.
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Pricing and politics: Where next for the UK's emissions trading scheme?
Business Green
NOVEMBER 26, 2021
Carbon pricing has always been a thorny political issue, but as Ministers weigh how to drive the next phase of the net zero transition some experts believe it has a critical role to play. It all started with such ambition. No decisions have been taken on the expansion of the scheme.".
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Why aviation needs to address its emissions problem now
AGreenLiving
JANUARY 7, 2020
Despite myriad efforts, the aviation industry unlikely to succeed in reducing its emissions given the current hurdles. The rest is here: Why aviation needs to address its emissions problem now. In fact, the case is quite the opposite.
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Net zero is a huge opportunity for Scotland - and its political parties
Business Green
MARCH 25, 2021
These industries, which include aviation, manufacturing, construction, contribute £26 billion to Scotland's economy each year. A perceived failure by the Scottish Government to deal with climate change, or to protect Scottish jobs and industries during the transition to net zero, may have considerable political ramifications.
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Heathrow-Sponsored ‘Lounge’ at Labour Conference Draws Criticism
DeSmogBlog
OCTOBER 1, 2022
Sponsoring such lounges is “prohibitively expensive for all but the largest of businesses,” and “affords unlimited access to MPs and other party members behind closed doors for the duration of the conference”, said Tim Johnson, the director of Aviation Environment Federation, a green transportation group. Credit: DeSmog.
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UN aviation body ditches older carbon credits from offsetting scheme
AGreenLiving
MARCH 19, 2020
Some green groups welcome International Civil Aviation Organization’s decision to exclude ‘questionable’ carbon credits from the industry’s Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation. Continued here: UN aviation body ditches older carbon credits from offsetting scheme.
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Crumbs of consolation? What the budget offered
Envirotec Magazine
MARCH 11, 2024
” The budget statement “predictably majored on pre-election giveaways political dividing lines”, said Ashden policy lead Will Walter, adding that it “will do nothing for those living in cold, damp, expensive to heat homes or for local authorities struggling to provide basic services.” A pivotal deal?
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This is the future climate hawks want to see
Business Green
JUNE 29, 2022
It would be easy at this point to simply list the litany of policy failures and the paucity of political leadership documented by the CCC's almost satirically titled progress report. The main thing stopping it happening at the pace and scale required is short termist, outdated, economic thinking, and a lack of political nerve.
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Take-off? Study predicts commercial hydrogen planes could be in the skies within 10 years
Business Green
JUNE 23, 2020
Hydrogen-powered planes have "significant, and so far underestimated" potential to become a major force in the future of flight, and to thereby help reduce the aviation sector's growing impact on the climate, according to the findings of a major industry and EU-backed study released yesterday.
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Strings attached: Greenpeace steps up calls for climate conditional bailouts
Business Green
JUNE 25, 2020
Greenpeace activists today delivered a letter to the Treasury backed by a 167,000 signature petition calling on Chancellor Rishi Sunak to ensure any bailout packaged for the aviation sector included climate-related conditions. Companies must protect both the workers who supported them, and the climate that supports us all.
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Net Zero Festival: Prepping net zero flight for take-off
Business Green
OCTOBER 21, 2020
Can the global aviation industry ever truly operate without fossil fuels and shift to zero emissions fuels and technologies? The discussion - which touches on the challenges, opportunities, investment and policies associated with green aviation - is available to watch again in full above.
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Election of Union Leader Who Called for COP26 to be Ditched ‘Not Ideal’, Say Campaigners
DeSmogBlog
JUNE 7, 2021
GMB is the third largest union in the UK, with some 620,000 members covering work across a range of industry sectors, including oil and gas, aviation and manufacturing, as well as the public sector. He also reiterated his concerns over COP26, claiming its hosting by Glasgow “will illustrate what political failure looks like”. “[T]he
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Net zero target will create up to 1.7 million new jobs by 2030, says research
Envirotec Magazine
MARCH 25, 2021
The analysis apparently finds that: Just 12 industries – which include aviation, agriculture, steel, manufacturing and construction – make up 62% of all UK carbon emissions. These industries are likely to be politically harder to decarbonise too.
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MPs table fresh legislation to 'close gaps' in UK Climate Change Act
Business Green
SEPTEMBER 1, 2020
Proposed Climate and Ecological Emergency Bill would see international aviation, shipping, and consumption fall within the UK's 2050 net zero target, while putting climate assemblies on a formal standing. The government is also unlikely to back the Bill in its current form given parts of the proposed legislation remain controversial.
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Birds, biochar, and green grid records: BusinessGreen's most read stories of the week
Business Green
MARCH 3, 2023
. - by James Murray ( @James_BG ) 'The net zero clock is ticking': Mission Zero Coalition launched to step up calls for UK green policy progress Chris Skidmore MP builds on Net Zero Review with new initiative aimed at rallying all UK political parties to place net zero at heart of next General Election. - by Stuart Stone ( @sstone26 ) . -
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Not so sweet sixteen
Business Green
OCTOBER 17, 2023
Credible solutions are even starting to emerge to tackle the more stubborn decarbonisation challenges presented by the industrial, aviation, shipping, and agricultural sectors. Because for all the progress of the past 16 years, far too many political and economic trends remain resolutely unchanged.
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'Private jets must be consigned to history': Greenpeace reveals private jet emissions quadrupled during last year's Davos Summit
Business Green
JANUARY 13, 2023
The report was released on the eve of the WEF's annual Davis Summit, which kicks off next week and is again expected to see hundreds of business and political leaders jet into the Swiss resort. Greenpeace said many of the flights "could have easily been train or car trips", as it again reiterated its calls for a ban on private jet flights.
How Rishi Sunak ignored his own calls for more honesty on net zero
Business Green
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
Add in his promise to 'scrap' proposals for meat taxes, additional aviation taxes, and onerous recycling rules that the government had never announced, and parts of this speech were misleading to the point of dishonesty.
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Stop greenwashing of aviation: 4. biofuels
Low Impact
NOVEMBER 24, 2021
Over five weeks we’re publishing a range of Stay Grounded factsheets about various kinds of techno-greenwashing provided by the aviation industry. Alternative jet fuels or so-called “Sustainable Aviation Fuels” (SAF) are liquid hydrocarbon fuels that can be used with existing aircraft in place of kerosene produced from fossil fuels.
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Alternative fuels are critical to decarbonising supply chains
Business Green
DECEMBER 5, 2021
Lower carbon sources of fuel for aviation and shipping is critical to delivering on net zero targets for firms, argues WasteFuel CEO Trevor Neilson. We know from opinion polls that citizens have woken up to the scale of the climate emergency and that it remains a political priority.
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UK Boosts Hydrogen, EVs and Carbon Capture With New Net-Zero Plan
GreenTechMedia
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
“Jet Zero” efforts to cut aviation sector emissions, as well as greener maritime emissions. While party politics are of course very much in play, the party’s assertion that the green recovery plan is dwarfed by those of France and Germany would appear to hold water. billion) of investment, previously announced.
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Heathrow expansion decision ruled illegal: The green economy reacts
Business Green
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
Supporters of Heathrow expansion had argued increased aviation capacity would provide a major economic boost to the UK and that a third runway could operate within the UK's climate change obligations. Instead of locking in more carbon pollution with more airport expansion, we urgently need a fair and effective way to cut aviation emissions.
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Flying is even worse for the climate than previously known
AGreenLiving
NOVEMBER 5, 2021
Now the greenhouse gas -emitting horrors of airplanes are back in the news, as a new study shows that aviation contributes more to global warming than was previously known. Because of the mix of climate pollutants that aviation generates. degrees Celsius by 2050, aviation could gobble up 1/6 of that jump in temperature.
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If the UK is to achieve net nero, a carbon tax is not the silver bullet
Business Green
FEBRUARY 9, 2021
In other areas, such as domestic heating, aviation, and agriculture we are effectively subsidising pollution. From Canada to France , Australia to South Africa - imposing a pure carbon tax is fraught with compromises and political revolt, neither of which allow for a carbon tax high enough to achieve much of anything, let alone net zero.
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Sustainable business in 2021: Five things we learned
Business Green
DECEMBER 29, 2021
Indeed, the ingredients for negativity are all too abundant: a persistent, shapeshifting virus; political stalemates that thwart climate action; growing social and economic inequality; terrifying ecological indicators; pushback by the anti-science crowd and their media enablers. Time to polish your resumé 2. Hard to abate' got easier.
Ed Miliband returns: Former Labour leader handed key climate role as Shadow Business Secretary
Business Green
APRIL 6, 2020
Key architect of the 2008 Climate Change Act returns to frontline politics, as Sir Keir Starmer unveils Labour's new front bench team. We must also return to climate change as the unavoidable long-term issue of our time, including with a recovery based on providing economic justice through a Green New Deal.".
Campaigners vow to oppose Gatwick Aiport's 'stealth' second runway following shareholder approval of plans
Business Green
JANUARY 5, 2021
The group condemned Gatwick's own characterisation of the new runway as a 'runway-lite' as "disingenuous" as it announced plans to launch a 'Stop Gatwick Expansion' campaign focused on drumming up public and political opposition to the project ahead of company's application for a development consent order for the runway upgrade. "To
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Heathrow expansion ruled illegal: The green economy reacts
Business Green
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
Supporters of Heathrow expansion had argued increased aviation capacity would provide a major economic boost to the UK and that a third runway could operate within the UK's climate change obligations. Instead of locking in more carbon pollution with more airport expansion, we urgently need a fair and effective way to cut aviation emissions.
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Looks like carbon offshoring is starting to be taken seriously…
Terra Infirma
JULY 15, 2019
Huhne’s political career soon after ended in ignominy over a speeding ticket, so I don’t know what happened as a direct result, but the Government has started measuring imported emissions , even if it wasn’t included in national targets. He told me it was a good point, and he’d consider it.
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Greenhouse gas removal technologies: Who should foot the bill?
Business Green
AUGUST 10, 2022
What we're trying to show is that there are policy designs that can be used to overcome that, and where the costs fall is a political decision," Burke explains. "It Such an approach would also have considerable political risks. Opposition will form if the transition is not seen to be fair," he tells BusinessGreen.
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The State of Green Business report 2021
Sustainability Consulting
MARCH 11, 2021
Aviation Plots a Sustainable Course Aviation is a hard to- abate sector, that isn’t easy to decarbonize through redesign or electrification. Regardless, pressure has been on aviation to join other sectors in dramatically cutting greenhouse gas emissions. In 2016, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), a U.N.
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UK’s Power Sector in Negative Emissions by 2033, Grid Operator Says
GreenTechMedia
JULY 27, 2020
’s aviation sector puffs out in an average year. The government is mulling the addition of solar and onshore wind to the CFD program, having blocked them from the 2017 and 2019 rounds on largely political grounds. That’s more CO2 than the U.K.’s The fourth auction is due in September 2021.
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$7 Billion Pledged for Clean Hydrogen Hubs by Biden-Harris Administration
Hydrogen Fuel News
OCTOBER 13, 2023
billion Gulf Coast Hydrogen Hub (HyVelocity) State Involved: Texas Key Features: Large-scale hydrogen production from natural gas with carbon capture and renewables-powered electrolysis Job Creation: Approximately 45,000 direct jobs (35,000 construction jobs and 10,000 permanent jobs) Funding: Up to $1.2
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Actual good news
Business Green
MARCH 27, 2020
Political commentators insisted the Tories would never revive onshore wind and solar farms. Even key players in carbon intensive sectors such as aviation, steel, cement, mining, farming, shipping,and oil and gas are starting to set net zero targets. Now it is on track to become the backbone of the UK's power system.
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Report: Rapid Transport Decarbonization Means We’ve Probably Passed Peak Oil
GreenTechMedia
NOVEMBER 20, 2020
While aviation and shipping also account for a portion of future oil growth, 92 percent of transportation in emerging economies is road transport. Beijing is keen to reduce its heavy dependence on foreign oil, particularly seaborne supply from politically unstable regions that must transit strategic chokepoints,” he added.
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Net Zero takes flight
Business Green
FEBRUARY 28, 2020
Had then Transport Secretary Chris Grayling received better legal advice or displayed better political judgement we would be in a very different place. But it can't rely on the government's support following a studiedly neutral response from Number 10.
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Net Zero Festival: OVO's Stephen Fitzpatrick on inspiring greener consumer behaviour change
Business Green
OCTOBER 18, 2020
VIDEO: Founder and CEO of UK's second largest energy supplier talks to Lucy Siegle about consumer behaviour change, new subscription models for home energy, and zero carbon aviation. Stephen Fitzpatrick founded OVO Energy in 2009 with a stated mission to make to make energy 'cheaper, greener and simpler' for everyone.
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Dozens of Ad & PR Industry Directors Have Ties to Heavily Polluting Industries
DeSmogBlog
APRIL 3, 2024
Of the 64 total board members at Omnicom Group , WPP , Interpublic Group (IPG), Publicis Groupe , Dentsu and Havas , 32 have significant experience in carbon-heavy sectors such as fossil fuels, fossil fuel financing, plastics, utilities, and aviation. Twenty-two are still serving in roles at such companies.
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‘Moonshot Moment’: Europe Announces Green Deal
GreenTechMedia
DECEMBER 11, 2019
The Green Deal is the first political act from the new European Commission, which was confirmed last month and serves as the European Union's executive branch. While it covers commercial aviation, heavy industry and the power sector, emissions from passenger transport, agriculture and waste are not.
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