Bummer: Aviation Ditching Climate (scam) Targets

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.

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