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These are some of the measures with which aviation continues to reduce its environmental impact in a growing industry.
Given the environmental problems that the planet faces, especially due to climate change, the airline industry seeks actions every day to help reduce its impact.
overall impact
ICAO data indicate that between the 2% al 3% of CO2 emissions worldwide are generated by the airline industry, although other contaminants were not measured in the study.
Although compared to more than 54% of global emissions are attributable to buses and ground transportation, aviation seeks to continue reducing its emissions within social responsibility, what for this 2020 hope to have reduced 50% the pollution index compared to the 2005.
Taking into account that global passenger traffic doubles every 15 years, the actions to be carried out are increasingly important and critical in order to care for the environment.
Aviation reduces its environmental impact
Thanks to a talk about the Global Megatrends of the industry for the coming years that took place a few days ago, organized by Quiport S.A, this post took another turn and i started to investigate more in detail, realizing that I shouldn't just focus on what the airlines do, but in the actions that the entire industry carries out day by day.
Since it would be very long to list all the measures, for example, that each airline carries out as its own actions, we will focus on some of the most important and innovative in the industry:
- Biofuel: the use of plant-based fuel or recycled oils continues to grow, generating a reduction in CO2 emissions of up to 50% per flight according to engine type, plane and drifted. These materials are made from organic waste from the agricultural industry or from plants specialized in the generation of this type of fuel.. Airlines like United, KLM, Interjet, Alaska Airlines, SpiceJet and others have slowly started to implement it, while studies of its performance continue to advance.
- Carbon neutral airports: A growing trend is for airports to "absorb" the emissions generated by the entire airport operation process with carbon bonds or carrying out actions such as reforestation, electric cars, eco-efficient lighting.
- Recycling: when you fly and the cabin crew pick up your waste, surely you realized that they go in a common bag, independent of the type of garbage. This is how more airlines such as Iberia are now processing this waste, generating more than 2.250 tons of recycled material.
- New materials on board: airlines such as Air France have incorporated plant-based cutlery on their flights, which generates organic waste and other, reduces the weight of the aircraft, which is also a factor that reduces fuel consumption.
- more efficient aircraft: The main source of aviation pollution is airplanes., despite the fact that every year the technology improves, having generated from 2005 a reduction of 50% in emissions. New winglet, better components and engines are the manufacturers' commitment to continue reducing, as is also the case with KLM, which is seeking to develop its own Flying V aircraft..
- Procedures of the future: new technology is also applied to air navigation, generating shorter satellite procedures, direct and safe, allowing greater fuel savings by reducing emissions pollution and even, noise.
The measures in the face of climatic changes generated in aviation could be seen as insignificant, but despite that, no less important, even more so when even some airports in the world would be at risk given that the sea level is expected to rise 15 centimeters in the next 10 years and of 1 a 2 meters to the 2100.
Flight shame
We can call it as a new trend, but it has had a negative impact with a decrease close to 5% of the number of passengers flown during the 2019 in Scandinavian countries like Norway, Sweden and Denmark.
This "shame of flying" has the intention of changing the scope of consumption for other less polluting means of transport such as electric trains that are found in developed countries such as those mentioned..
With the idea to stop flying, so that the carbon footprint of people is smaller and promoted by environmentalists has generated intense debates in the world and especially in these countries about the polluting emissions of airplanes, even more so when there are other alternative means of transport.
What do you think about the impact and measures of the airline industry against climate change?
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