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.
Dozens of Ad & PR Industry Directors Have Ties to Heavily Polluting Industries
DeSmogBlog
APRIL 3, 2024
Half of the board members at the world’s six largest advertising and public relations companies have ties to polluting industries, DeSmog can reveal. DeSmog’s analysis reveals that half of these directors have connections to polluting industries. Twenty-two are still serving in roles at such companies. . Coleman Jr.
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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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Heathrow-Sponsored ‘Lounge’ at Labour Conference Draws Criticism
DeSmogBlog
OCTOBER 1, 2022
Heathrow has been called the second most-polluting airport in the world. This ability to influence the discussion, and deny any alternative point of view, is completely inappropriate at a time when the aviation sector is looking for political support for airport expansion, and finance for alternative fuels,” he added.
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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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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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'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.
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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The ‘Big Con’ Revealed: Report Details Fossil Fuel Industry’s Deceptive ‘Net Zero’ Strategy
DeSmogBlog
JUNE 12, 2021
The report — titled “ The Big Con: How Big Polluters Are Advancing a “Net Zero” Climate Agenda to Delay, Deceive, and Deny ” — was published by Corporate Accountability, the Global Forest Coalition, and Friends of the Earth International, and is endorsed by over 60 environmental organizations.
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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. Agriculture is another area where polluters are currently rewarded for emitting carbon, despite the sector contributing 10 per cent of the UK's emissions. Green altruism will not get you very far.
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Campaigners vow to oppose Gatwick Aiport's 'stealth' second runway following shareholder approval of plans
Business Green
JANUARY 5, 2021
But Communities Against Gatwick Noise and Emissions (CAGNE) immediately pledged to fight the plans, warning the 90 extra fights a day facilitated by the upgraded runway would hike toxic greenhouse gas emissions - including carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, and vapours - while increasing noise pollution across rural parts of Surrey, Sussex, and Kent.
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Revealed: The Climate-Conflicted Directors Leading the World’s Top Banks
DeSmogBlog
APRIL 6, 2021
The majority of directors at the world’s biggest banks have affiliations to polluting companies and organisations, a DeSmog investigation shows. There were also significant ties to banks and investment vehicles supporting polluting industries, as well as to thinktanks and lobbying groups with a history of campaigning against climate action.
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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. Their plans would pollute as much as a small country. No ifs, no buts, no lies, no u-turns.
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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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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. Because of the mix of climate pollutants that aviation generates.
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Why carbon taxes should be spent on insulating the nation's draughty homes
Business Green
JANUARY 10, 2023
Perhaps the easiest option of them all is to raise funds from the polluting businesses themselves through carbon taxes. It taxes some of the most polluting sectors of our economy - things like aviation and manufacturing - by requiring them to buy permits for each tonne of carbon dioxide they emit. But we've been here before.
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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.
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. Their plans would pollute as much as a small country. No ifs, no buts, no lies, no u-turns. Some sanity is finally prevailing.
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Labour Accepted £12,000 From Major Polluter Drax
DeSmogBlog
JANUARY 26, 2023
The payment from the former coal-fired power station was registered on September 12 last year, and published in December in the Electoral Commission register of political donations. I’m not comfortable with leadership figures cosying up to big polluters and corporate interests,” she told DeSmog.
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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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Fit for 55 (and you know it)
Business Green
JULY 15, 2021
The plan is not perfect - there is nothing in it that couldn't have been announced several years ago and the approach to decarbonising aviation in particular is built on the wing and a prayer of techno-optimism. A lot of polluting assets are going to be stranded. This is a big deal. MindTheGap between words and action.
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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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IEA calls for lower speed limits, car-free Sundays, and public transport incentives to slash oil demand
Business Green
MARCH 18, 2022
With the majority of oil demand coming from transport, the roadmap focuses largely on reducing the amount of the fossil fuel used by passenger cars, with some measures aimed at slashing fossil fuel demand from aviation. ease market strains ??
Top 8 Sustainable Fishing Practices: Small Business Sustainability Guide
Green Business Bureau
JULY 27, 2021
From litter and pollution to overfishing and habitat destruction, today’s unsustainable commercial fishing has a significant negative impact on the oceans’ ecosystems. Further, the shipping industry responsible for transporting seafood near and far has a higher rate of pollution than all but five countries. Use lead-free fishing gear.
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Weak voluntary carbon markets will kill our chances of limiting temperature rise to 1.5C
Business Green
OCTOBER 3, 2021
Launched and driven by big names in finance, oil and aviation, this scheme is aiming to make the market for carbon offsetting credits worth $100bn a year - and secure a "consensus on legitimacy of offsetting" in delivering net zero plans. Yet over the past few months, the Taskforce has said it w on't exclude any low-quality credits.
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In defence of net zero
Business Green
JULY 27, 2021
Will well-intentioned critiques of demonstrably inadequate net zero strategies catalyse more ambitious decarbonisation plans or will they inadvertently undermine a trend that has helped successfully push climate issues up the corporate and political agenda? The net zero concept also has three inherent strengths.
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Labour completes green Shadow Ministerial line-up
Business Green
APRIL 14, 2020
The team will be headed by Ed Miliband, following the surprise return to frontline politics for the former Labour leader and Energy and Climate Change Secretary. In the UK our polluted air contributes to over 40,000 premature deaths a year and poisons our environment, with greatest impact on children's health and people in poorer communities.
Green light for the green recovery?
Business Green
JUNE 3, 2020
Instead, they appear to have accepted that the compelling economic, political, and environmental rationale for a green recovery package are so obvious that it would be madness to resist the growing calls from businesses and the public for bolder climate action. They improve energy security, reduce air pollution, and boost climate resilience.
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Editor’s Pick: Top DeSmog UK Stories of 2022
DeSmogBlog
DECEMBER 23, 2022
Putin’s invasion of Ukraine showed the real dangers of relying on brutal polluting petrostates for energy, and climate impacts became tragically ever more present across the world. At the same time, it was a year in which the case for climate action could not have been clearer. Plenty for DeSmog to get stuck into, in summary. Tufton St.
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December 2021 Cleantech Roundup: Year in Review
Clean Energy Trust
JANUARY 28, 2022
Also worth mentioning on the corporate front is the purchases and support for Sustainable Aviation Fuel from airlines, particularly United Airlines. Gridlock is still a problem, but there is optimism as climate has risen in the US to become a top-tier political issue (as it is already in western Europe).
Net zero: UK government sued for weak strategy - so here's what makes a good climate change plan
Business Green
JANUARY 24, 2022
Emissions cuts must also be comprehensive and include the most difficult sectors to decarbonise, such as heavy industry, aviation and agriculture. Offsets shouldn't be used to allow pollution to continue unabated. The growth in net zero targets suggests that political and business leaders know this to be true.
Government revs up Transport Decarbonisation Plan with proposed diesel truck ban, but will it go far enough?
Business Green
JULY 13, 2021
The leaked reports did not provide any indication of the provisions set out in the new plan to boost active travel and tackle emissions from the rail, aviation and maritime sectors. There are hopes the Chancellor will finalise plans for the UK's environmental taxes in the autumn, as the UK gears up to host the COP26 Climate Summit.
Mapped: The Rapid Rise of Voluntary Carbon Markets
DeSmogBlog
NOVEMBER 2, 2021
But there are very real concerns about how these companies are going to meet their goals, with many relying on purchasing carbon credits generated by others’ efforts not to pollute, rather than reducing their own emissions as much or as fast as they can. But the taskforce’s initial recommendations have been met with hostility.
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So, you want to take a slow stroll to net zero? OK, but how exactly?
Business Green
FEBRUARY 4, 2022
Civil servants then dutifully run off to try and find anything on the statute book that is genuinely outdated or counter productive, only to return several months later having found next to nothing that can be cut without serious economic, environmental, and/or legal consequences, as well as likely political uproar.
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The key to scaling greenhouse gas removals? Robust monitoring, reporting and verification
Business Green
MARCH 31, 2023
Furthermore, political and financial support for GGR must not blind policymakers to the risks inherent to individual GGR techniques - for instance, the high reversibility risks associated with forest plantations, or promising but under-researched approaches such as ocean alkalinity enhancement.
Big Meat Unveils Battle Plans for COP28
DeSmogBlog
NOVEMBER 29, 2023
percent contribution to global human-induced emissions is a higher share than aviation. JBS, the world’s most polluting meat company, will be out in “full force” in Dubai , according to the files. At COP27 in Egypt, DeSmog revealed that the firm gained access via Brazil’s country delegation. Just seven percent are based in Africa.
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Taking the positives from COP26
Business Green
NOVEMBER 12, 2021
Meanwhile, the huge clean tech buying signals from coalitions of large corporates focused on electric vehicles, green steel, renewables, green shipping, and sustainable aviation fuels, all point to how these markets could quickly reach tipping points that trigger the rapid adoption that obliterates fossil fuel demand. is barely alive.
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How the net zero sceptics' medieval arguments are being overwhelmed by a very modern reality
Business Green
AUGUST 9, 2022
And yet, so complete is their disconnect from the real world that these zombie arguments continue to stumble across the political landscape desperately looking for an issue, any issue, to attack. Soaring energy bills? Blame net zero. Boris Johnson's downfall? Net zero's fault. A decade of flat-lining productivity and anaemic wage growth?
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A new Swedish iron processing project could disrupt the global steel industry
GreenBiz
DECEMBER 17, 2020
And with the political backing and de-risking of the early stage of the HYBRIT project, it can be argued that HYBRIT is the outcome of a long-standing political intent to ensure a competitive basic industry sector in Sweden. These steel plants can replace polluting blast furnaces with a process that emits water vapor instead of CO2.
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Tax Day: CBI checklist sets out how to 'green' the tax system
Business Green
MARCH 10, 2021
As such, recommendations in the report include proposals for the government to ensure the "polluter pays" principle is embedded throughout the tax system, noting that taxes should be designed to introduce a price signal that promotes alternative, less environmentally damaging behaviour.
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Nigel Farage’s Reform Party Took £135,000 from Climate Science Deniers and Fossil Fuel Interests
DeSmogBlog
NOVEMBER 17, 2023
Mordaunt’s other company, Bristol Port Company, claims to handle 27 percent of all UK aviation fuel imports and the import and export of 550,000 motor vehicles every year. Transport is the single biggest contributor to carbon dioxide emissions in the UK, making up 26 percent of all CO2 pollution in 2021. The Tory party received £3.5
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Removing CO2: Is the UK's vision for a thriving carbon removals market starting to take shape?
Business Green
JULY 6, 2022
"However, we must also acknowledge that sectors such as industry, agriculture and aviation will be difficult to decarbonise completely by 2050. Greenhouse gas removals (GGR) are therefore essential to compensate for the residual emissions arising from the most difficult activities to reduce or eliminate from within polluting sectors.".
The IPCC Synthesis Report: Ten key takeaways for business
Business Green
MARCH 21, 2023
Reports that high-polluting nations like Saudi Arabia pushed for an emphasis on such technologies to be included in the final report will do little to quell these fears. With the next report from the IPCC not due for years, this is as comprehensive a guide to climate action as business and political leaders are going to get for a while.
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