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June 10, 2009
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Each month ATW's Eco-Aviation Today brings you the latest environmental news and trends affecting the world’s airlines and tell you how the air transport industry is working to reduce its impact on the planet. Do you have friends or colleagues who might find this information useful? If so, please forward this newsletter along to them or click here to sign them up.
IATA aims for carbon neutral growth in 11 years IATA has committed to achieving carbon neutral traffic growth by 2020, the organization announced at its 65th Annual General Meeting in Kuala Lumpur this week. "Two years ago we set a vision to achieve carbon-neutral growth on the way to a carbon-free future. Today we have taken a major step forward by committing to a global cap on our emissions in 2020," IATA DG and CEO Giovanni Bisignani said. After 2020, aviation will have to offset any carbon growth by purchasing credits or offsets under the plan. [MORE] Biofuels face tough production challenges Although science is capable of solving the technical challenges of creating safe, sustainable, second-generation aviation biofuels, getting them into production in large quantities will take a major effort that may not be possible without government support, according to speakers at the recent Eco-Aviation conference in Washington sponsored by ATW and Leeham Co. [MORE] GIACC falls short on emissions trading, recommends fuel efficiency goals ICAO's Group on International Aviation and Climate Change this month recommended "a global aspirational goal of 2% annual improvement in fuel efficiency of the international civil aviation in-service fleet," but noticeably did not make any proposals on emissions trading. [MORE] Contrail theory challenged One of the least understood and most contentious issues surrounding aviation's impact on the environment has been the potential contribution of contrails to climate change. During the grounding of the US commercial airline fleet in the days following 9/11, scientists at the University of Wisconsin claimed that the absence of contrails was responsible for a 1.1 deg. C (2 deg. F) change in temperature over the US. [MORE] Other News Virgin Blue joins AGD TAP onboard with IATA offset program JAL receives green light on more efficient routings Dutch government announced that from July 1 it will abandon its deeply unpopular "eco tax" on passengers [MORE] |
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