Guest blog: Why demand management is necessary if Aviation is to achieve the Paris Agreement Emissions reduction imperatives
….. 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...