Posted on 10/04/2021 1:16:51 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
GENEVA (AP) — The world’s largest association of airlines said Monday that it is aiming for the air transport industry to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2050, while acknowledging it will be a “huge challenge.”
The International Air Transport Association, which has key offices in Geneva, said its general meeting in Boston had agreed on the target, a commitment that would line it up with the goal of the 2015 Paris accord to help keep global warming under 1.5 degrees Celsius.
The industry appears to be counting heavily on a carbon-offset plan laid out by a U.N. organization on civil aviation, but suggests governments have a role to play, too.
“With collective efforts of the entire value chain and supportive government policies, aviation will achieve net zero emissions by 2050,” IATA Director-General Willie Walsh said in a statement.
IATA said industry can take steps through use of sustainable fuels, new plane technologies, improved efficiencies and new power sources like electric or hydrogen power — but carbon capture and carbon-offset programs will also have a role.
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Why don’t they want to help plants grow?
How are they going to do that ? With battery powered turbofans ?
Why would it be a challenge? They just need to ground their planes.think like AOC.
and then they find out it’s carbon dioxide (CO2) that keeps the planes from CRASHING
I love it when non-engineers make goals like this, with no concept whatsoever of what they are proposing.
Solar panel wings as big as corn fields.
Has the entire world gone insane? The false premise of carbon dioxide as the world’s biggest problem has blinded everyone into becoming mind-numbed zombies.
Carbon offsets??
How is that even possible if everybody is "net-zero"?
“that’s so gay”
That's not the biggest problem, Trump supporters are.
Rubber bands.
There's going to be one country where everyone lives the Thug Life that sells carbon offsets to the rest of the world.
That sounded real good, but I might have gotten it bass-ackward.
Impossible....absolutely impossible.
The Luddites will be happy but no one else.
They are going to rely on sustainable fuels it says. I assume a sustainable fuel comes from plants or algae, but it still releases CO2 so where’s the benefit? Same with corn and ethanol, the net CO2 generated is still more than zero All those things to get plants to grow create more CO@ like tractors. It’s a shell game and sustainable is word salad,
The Paris accord has a convenient out too. If some report says the temperature only rises 1.5 degrees by the target date then all this posturing will have worked and they can keep it up.
If they cease operations.😳
If an alternative to misnomered “fossil fuels” becomes available and is properly harnessed, the need for big planes, as well as roads and bridges, will be largely moot.
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