Faced with the climate emergency, air transport must take climate measures. With the world's countries committed to achieving carbon neutrality in a few decades, the airline industry itself promised to halve its emissions between 2005 and 2050.
Is it possible to make aviation truly sustainable?
How can the carbon footprint of air travel be drastically reduced?
Will airplanes ever be a climate-friendly form of transportation?
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To reach the objective of carbon neutrality and limit global warming to 2°C, three possible levers will have to be used:
energy efficiency
the massive development of alternative fuels
sobriety
Each lever is necessary, even if we were very aggressively developing the technological and operational levers (new aircraft, ground and flight optimisation, use of new energy vectors, etc.).
Airplanes will probably never be sustainable. Rather, it is a question of making the sector sustainable in its overall carbon footprint.
To do so, it would be necessary:
prohibit the development of new airports
banning flights when a less carbon-intensive alternative exists (replacing airplanes with trains and buses whenever possible, in order to preserve the carbon budget of air travel in cases where air travel is the only viable transportation option)
Increase the amounts of the ecotax
Aviation provides countless services to society and it is important to build a sustainable future together. However, technology will not be able to do everything if traffic growth is not also addressed.
Air transport is going through a monumental air hole with the Covid-19 crisis. It is imperative to take this into account through the environmental measures to be implemented. However, let's not lose sight of the longer-term climate objectives: the proposals of the Citizen Climate Convention should not be thrown away without further ado. They can be adapted to take into account both the economic impact of COVID-19 in the short term, and the urgent need not to restart "as before".
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Very informative, thanks!