Felix Dodds comments on sustainable development, coffee & life

  …..                        AND HOW TO GO ABOUT IT By Chris Lyle:  International Aviation Policy,  Tourism Panel on Climate Change There is increasing evidence that aviation emissions mitigation measures as presently propounded will be substantially inadequate to achieve the sector’s requisite contribution to the Paris Agreement targets and that demand management needs to be added to the mitigation package - at an early date. This commentary accounts for the necessity of fiscal instruments or capacity constraints and is aimed at provoking thought and research on ways forward. Current emissions mitigation measures The scientific consensus is that aviation’s global CO2 emissions would have to peak by 2025, be reduced by 2030 to about half of 2019 levels and by 2050 to zero (not any “net” zero which includes out-of-sector carbon offsetting, capture and stor...

Guest blog by: Chris Lyle: Chris is Chief Executive of Canadian-based Air Transport Economics and in 1997, as the Director responsible in the ICAO Secretariat, he facilitated acceptance of the role given to the Organization through the Kyoto Protocol. He can be reached at clyle@airtransporteconomics.ca  "This article first appeared in the aviation and environment online publication GreenAir and is reproduced with permission."  In 1997, the UNFCCC’s COP3 decided, via the Kyoto Protocol, to treat international aviation indirectly through ICAO. CO2 emissions from international aviation have since doubled from 317Mt in 1997 to 641Mt in 2019, to match the total emissions of the 129 lowest emitting countries combined, ranking just behind Canada and at least one and half times those of the UK.   Climate Action Tracker , which has been assessing the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) of individual countries under the Paris Agreement, last year turned its attention to inte...