While the airline industry is quick to reassure that technical solutions, such as improved materials, engines and biofuels, and market-based measures can provide a fix, new research has found these to be examples of “technology myths”.
Small, individual acts can attract support and translate into larger and potentially system-level change argues one of world's leading climate scientists
If you fly economy from Los Angeles to Paris and back, you’ve just emitted 3 tons of CO2 into the atmosphere, 10 times what an average Kenyan emits in an entire year. Flying first class doubles these numbers.
