Sentences with phrase «if aviation emissions»

If aviation emissions were counted as those of a separate country, that country would be ranked as a top ten emitter.

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Steve Webb, Liberal Democrat energy and climate change spokesman, said: «If the Department for Transport continues to allow unchecked airport expansion we could find that growth in aviation will gobble up all of the available emissions, forcing the rest of the economy to make even more drastic cuts.»

«Global efforts to stay well below 2 degrees [Celsius of warming], and especially 1.5 degrees, will be severely compromised if international aviation and shipping emissions continue to increase,» Mark Lutes, senior global climate policy adviser at the World Wide Fund for Nature's global climate and energy initiative, said by email.

«If, as in the past, the ambition of these sectors continues to fall behind efforts in other sectors and if action to combat climate change is further postponed, their emission shares in global CO2 emissions may rise substantially to 22 percent for international aviation and 17 percent for maritime transport by 2050,» the report saiIf, as in the past, the ambition of these sectors continues to fall behind efforts in other sectors and if action to combat climate change is further postponed, their emission shares in global CO2 emissions may rise substantially to 22 percent for international aviation and 17 percent for maritime transport by 2050,» the report saiif action to combat climate change is further postponed, their emission shares in global CO2 emissions may rise substantially to 22 percent for international aviation and 17 percent for maritime transport by 2050,» the report said.

While other transportation modes, such as the maritime industry, are also discussing ways to limit emissions, the world's attention is centered on aviation - a sector that would be the world's seventh - largest carbon emitter if it were a country.

This objective can only be fulfilled if the aviation industry, a top ten global polluter, contributes its fair share in reducing emissions rapidly.

The introduction of biofuels could mitigate some of aviation's carbon emissions, if biofuels can be developed to meet the demanding specifications of the aviation industry, although both the costs of such fuels and the emissions from their production process are uncertain at this time (medium agreement, medium evidence)[5.3.3].

The research concludes that if aviation growth continues, it could take up the entire emissions budget for all sectors of the EU economy by 2040 based on an atmospheric stabilisation target of greenhouse gas concentrations of 450 parts per million.

Tyndall, the UK's leading independent climate change research body, concludes that if aviation growth continues, it could take up the entire emissions budget for all sectors of the EU economy by 2040 and all sectors of the UK economy by 2037, if we are to keep within safe limits [2].

Friends of the Earth believes that if the EU allows the aviation sector to grow according to its forecasts, it will find it politically impossible to achieve the overall cut in CO2 emissions needed.

«If the aviation industry continues increasing their emissions, other industries will need to have even steeper reductions,» Ranum says.

But carbon market experts are skeptical that the plan will actually lower the industry's emissions, and, if it doesn't, aviation's carbon market could wind up undercutting the larger global effort to become carbon - neutral.

If the aviation industry were to buy credits of unknown quality from these voluntary markets as well, on paper it would seem as if airlines were offsetting their emissions, but, in practice, the atmosphere would not be fooleIf the aviation industry were to buy credits of unknown quality from these voluntary markets as well, on paper it would seem as if airlines were offsetting their emissions, but, in practice, the atmosphere would not be fooleif airlines were offsetting their emissions, but, in practice, the atmosphere would not be fooled.

While other transportation modes, such as the maritime industry, are also discussing ways to limit emissions, the world's attention is now centered on aviation - a sector that would be the world's seventh largest carbon emitter if it were a country.