It was never gonna fly, if you’ll excuse the pun. The only way would have been to either stop fossil fueled flights altogether or make a breakthrough in aviation fuel. Considering they haven’t come up with one for cars, it’s a long shot
Key climate target of airline decarbonisation ‘in peril’: IATA
The airline industry’s flagship goal of decarbonising by 2050 is now “in peril” due to climate-sceptic policies, including those of US President Donald Trump, the leading airline association IATA warned on Sunday.
The emergence of leaders favouring fossil fuels and recent regulatory rollbacks are “obviously a setback… it does imperil success on the 2050 horizon”, Marie Owens Thomsen, the International Air Transport Association’s senior vice president for sustainability, told reporters.
“But I don’t think it’s going to halt or reverse progress. I think it will just slow progress,” she said at the IATA annual industry conference in India.
Sounds like a position that offers nothing but nagging, but, I bet it pays a lot.
The air transportation industry has faced growing pressure to deal with its contribution to the climate crisis.
Currently responsible for 2.5 percent to three percent of global CO2 emissions, the sector’s switch to renewable fuels is proving difficult, even if the aeronautics industry and energy companies have been seeking progress.
To achieve net-zero emissions, airlines rely on non-fossil sources known as Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF).
However, SAF biofuels are still three to four times more expensive than petroleum-based jet fuel.
Guess who pays for these fuels that are about as worthwhile as ethanol.
Owens Thomsen estimated on Sunday that $4.7 trillion in investment is needed to establish SAF sectors capable of meeting the needs of air transport by 2050.
“It is entirely achievable,” she said, adding that the raw materials and technology already exist and simply need to be developed.
And they can get that money from ending fossil fuels “subsidies”, which are really just tax breaks. Which would mean the cost of living would go up. Not that the Elites care. But, come on, most of the airlines are just greenwashing to placate the climate nuts.
The silver lining is that now the field is wide open for private investment into this lucrative field. How do we know it’s lucrative? Because democrats have been telling us that for decades. Those democrat oligarchs like Bernie Sanders have tons of money they can “invest” in all these sustainable products.
Highly rated Jet Blue has been carbon neutral for 5 years
All international flights have had a carbon offset tax for some years
Mr smith² wrote:
How, Mr smith², does paying “a carbon offset tax” reduce the amount of CO2 their jets spew into the atmosphere?
The offsets are described as paying for actions outset your basic function that serve to reduce carbon doxide. For example, paying to have a forest planted. They are, bluntly, controversial.
Johnny-aliassmithsmith-what the hell are you talking about? Jet Blue puts out the same amount of CO2 as any other airline flying the same plane the same distance, ect..Still too hard for you to understand the simple concept that paying “offsets” doesn’t reduce your evil CO2?
Note that Johnny is actually John, then later called himself Harry. Don’t bother trying to reason with him. He lacks the mental capacity.
The trump recession II (TR2) will cut airline CO2 emissions!
In addition, the airlines are slowly transitioning to more fuel efficient aircraft, exploring less polluting fuels and using questionable carbon offsets.
June 1, 2025 –> 429 ppm
Atmospheric CO2 should reach 500 ppm by 2050 and 1000 ppm by around 2100. But we’ll all be dead so let our grandkids and great-grandkids worry about it. Live it up, bros!!
Oh my God. Carbon will go to 0.05%. We will die.
Along with Rimjob’s grandkids and not so great-grandkids. It’s in their DNA.
How much CO2 was created by Canadian wildfires this week? Hint: Enough to offset all the carbon offsets on the planet, forever. Also offsets the benefits of all those people driving EVs, all of them. And Canada will catch fire again next year. Perhaps Canada should reimburse everyone for all the climate harm they caused. They cannot claim they didn’t know since it is their official policy that CO2 causes climate harm.
Foolish, foolish climate change policy ignores where CO2 comes from and how it stays in the atmosphere.