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Air traffic strike benefits environment
Last week’s strike by air traffic controllers in Europe has had an unexpected benefit for the environment, said Climate Care.
The strike lead to the cancellation of 7,000 flights. Had they flown, Climate Care said the planes would have emitted the equivalent of 150,000 tonnes of the global warming gas carbon dioxide (CO2) – the equivalent to the annual gas and electricity consumption of 30,000 homes in the UK.
According to Climate Care, aviation is one of the fastest growing sources of greenhouse gas emissions in the world. As demand increases, emissions from aviation are expected to increase fourfold by 2050. By then they may account for 10% of all man made global warming. Climate Care says that at present, international aviation is growing unrestricted by regulation or fuel taxes and also lies outwith the Kyoto Protocol.
Read our previous stories:
28-May-2002 ABTA to make Cairo conference ‘climate neutral’
28-Mar-2002 WWF: Holidays abroad needn’t cost the Earth
5-Dec-2001 Aviation`s contribution to climate change
2-Dec-2001 Mauritius: Energy efficient bulbs brighten island`s future
19-Sep-2001 Hotel benchmarking tool identifies £400m environmental cost savings
26-Jan-2001 TravelMole’s list of Sustainable Tourism Organisations/Companies
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Climate Care is a scheme that lets individuals and companies pay to ‘offset’ the emissions created by their use of products such as petrol and diesel, electricity and gas, and air travel. Companies and individuals who want to stop adding to global warming can use Climate Care to offset the emissions from some or all of their operations. For more information contact Tom Morton, or call +44 (0)1865 777 770. Please mention you read this information on TravelMole.
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