Toward Sustainable Aviation Fuels (October, 2015) Commercial aviation accounts for 2 percent of global carbon pollution, a figure projected to grow to between 3 and 4.7 percent by 2050 without concerted action to curb emissions. (climatesolutions.org)
Nathaniel Keohane, Vice President for Global Climate, Environmental Defense Fund, said: «In the same week that we learned global carbon pollution is on the rise again after three flat years, the Trump administration came to Bonn to sell the world on fossil fuels. (climatenetwork.org)
How we produce and use energy is also pivotal to the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change, in which 195 nations agreed to reduce global carbon pollution to levels that will limit global temperature rise to well below 2 degrees Celsius. (seforall.org)