Carbon dioxide, methane, and other greenhouse gases

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SUN calls for “moon-shot” effort by aviation sector to be zero-carbon by 2050

January 24, 2020

sunx calls for decarbonisation moon-shot by aviation

“Good Tour­ism” Insight Part­ner SUNx — Strong Uni­ver­sal Net­work — has again called for a “moon-shot” effort by the avi­ation and air trans­port sec­tor to be zero-car­­bon by 2050.  Dur­ing FITUR, the inter­na­tion­al tour­ism fair in Mad­rid, SUNx Co-Founder Geof­frey Lip­man said that the avi­ation sector’s decar­bon­isa­tion pledge — for 50% of 2005 levels — was now more than a dec­ade old and was […]

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Businesses think they’re on top of carbon risk, but tourism destinations have barely a clue: Professor

February 10, 2019

Tourism accounts for approximately 8% of emissions, much of it from planes ... A Qantas Boeing 747-400 flying at approximately 11,000 metres over Starbeyevo in Moscow, May 2010. By Sergey Kustov http://www.airliners.net/photo/Qantas/Boeing-747-438/1729381/L/ (CC BY-SA 3.0) via Wikimedia. https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=16496086

Less energy- and car­­bon-intens­ive slow travel could be the future of tour­ism in far-flung des­tin­a­tions, accord­ing to Susanne Beck­en of Grif­fith Uni­ver­sity. The dir­ect­ors of most Aus­trali­an com­pan­ies are well aware of the impact of car­bon emis­sions, not only on the envir­on­ment but also on their own firms as emis­­sions-intens­ive indus­tries get lumbered with taxes […]

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Airport carbon dioxide emissions cut by 200,000 tonnes in 2015/16: ACI

June 26, 2017

ACI Director General Angela Gittens says airport carbon emissions were reduced by 200,000 tonnes in 2015/2016. Image source: 'Airport World'

Air­ports Coun­cil Inter­na­tion­al (ACI)‘s Air­port Car­bon Accred­it­a­tion pro­gramme reduced car­bon diox­ide emis­sions by more than 200,000 tonnes in the report­ing year end­ing June 2016, accord­ing to ACI Dir­ect­or Gen­er­al Angela Git­tens. The pro­gramme is now in its eighth year with 182 accred­ited air­ports in 54 coun­tries. Writ­ing for Air­port World, Ms Git­tens asser­ted that ACI’s […]

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