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Airline emissions

November 2024

  • flight route map

    Sydney to London flight emissions can be halved depending on route, plane and seating

  • A cyclist in a cycleway lane in London.

    Weatherwatch
    Britons need greener travel options to meet net zero target

September 2024

  • How two Airbus ZeroE blended wing concept planes could look in flight.

    Flying-Vs and longer wings: how the familiar shape of passenger planes is about to change

  • Passengers boarding a Ryanair plane

    A carbon tax to clip the wings of frequent flyers

  • George Monbiot

    Out of 1,500 global climate policies, only 63 have really worked. That’s where green spin has got us

    George Monbiot
  • A passenger plane approaches Larnaca airport, Cyprus, as a woman walks past sunbeds on a busy beach.

    Overtourism and the climate crisis
    ‘Flight shame is dead’: concern grows over climate impact of tourism boom

August 2024

  • Silhouette of an airborne plane

    Weatherwatch
    Affluent Norway has third highest per-capita domestic flight emissions

    Rich countries dominate the ratings for the most aviation emissions, with the USA and China topping the table

July 2024

  • Airborne Air New Zealand passenger plane

    Air New Zealand is first major airline to scrap 2030 emissions target

  • Ryanair and Wizz Air aircraft at Ferenc Liszt international airport in Budapest, Hungary, 9 July 2024. The Wizz plane, which has bright magenta livery, appears to be taxiing out to the runway while the Ryanair plane, which is silver with a gold-on-dark-blue logo showing an Irish harp, appears to have just taken off facing the other direction, so it looks as if it is flying above the Wizz plane

    Airlines may have to disclose carbon impact of individuals’ flights under new UK policy

  • Labour’s deputy leader, Angela Rayner, marshals a plane during a visit to Stansted airport in May.

    Buses, trains and bicycle paths: Labour’s mission to decarbonise UK transport

  • the yellow and red shell logo atop a green petro pump nozzle

    Shell to pause construction of huge biodiesel plant in Rotterdam

June 2024

  • Laura Saunders post on X from October 25, 2023. Honoured and excited to have recently been selected as the candidate for Bristol North West #SelectSaunders

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Tory candidate facing probe over election date betting allegations threatens to sue BBC – as it happened

    Laura Saunders issues statement saying she may sue BBC over ‘infringement of privacy rights’ and says she is cooperating with Gambling Commission
  • An aircraft departing from Amsterdam Schiphol in the Netherlands.

    Pollutionwatch
    Children near Amsterdam airport use inhalers more, study finds

    Results show increase in symptoms such as wheeziness in presence of high aviation-related ultrafine particles
  • A British Airways A380 takes off

    Ex-BA boss: drop green aviation policies if costs outweigh benefits

    Willie Walsh, now boss of Iata, also calls for more investment in sustainable aviation fuels

April 2024

  • Passengers boarding a pink plane

    UK startup lifts lid on plan to turn human waste into jet fuel

  • Qantas and Virgin planes on tarmac

    Qantas and Virgin Australia put on notice over offsets after landmark decision on greenwashing

March 2024

  • Billboard ad featuring image of a child on a swing and blue ocean and sky, and bearing slogan 'join us in creating a more sustainable future'

    Dutch airline KLM misled customers with vague green claims, court rules

  • Cars parked in the street near the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France

    Campaigners warn over failure to curb Europe’s ‘runaway’ transport emissions

February 2024

  • view of planes on their stands and taxiing out to the runway in a queue at Heathrow, with one plane coming in to land and the London skyline seen in the background

    London is most exposed city in world to air pollution from aviation, study finds

  • Artists impression of a Flying Whales airship over wind turbines on a mountain top

    ‘It’s a net zero cargo solution’: could Victoria become home to an airship renaissance?

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