Sentences with phrase «climate on aviation»

And his co-author Radley Horton, a climatologist at Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory, said: «This points to the unexplored risks of changing climate on aviation.

«This points to the unexplored risks of changing climate on aviation,» said coauthor Radley Horton, a climatologist at Columbia University's Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory.

«This points to the unexplored risks of changing climate on aviation,» said study co-author Radley Horton, a climatologist at Columbia University's Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory.

Not exact matches

The Government announced its intention to create a new framework for aviation in the UK, to replace the previous government's 2003 White Paper, «The Future of Air Transport», which it said «failed to take sufficient account of climate change and the impact of aviation on local communities.»

Research published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in 1999 found that, in 1992, aviation was responsible for 3.5 per cent of the total global contribution to climate Climate Change in 1999 found that, in 1992, aviation was responsible for 3.5 per cent of the total global contribution to climate climate change.

«It remains important that this Scottish Bill is developed alongside the UK Climate Change Bill, especially with regard to the Scottish targets on aviation and shipping.»

For most of my life I have stood firmly against expansion of Heathrow airport, largely on the grounds of aviation's impact on climate change.

I would be interested in your opinion on the relative contribution to climate change made by: a) carbon emissions from aviation and b) methane emissions from livestock.

Climate change and the impact of extreme temperatures on aviation.

This event was kindly hosted at the South African pavilion during the COP23 negotiations in Bonn: Tuesday, November 14th from 10:00 - 11:45 Background: The responsibility to address the growing climate impact of aviation and shipping falls on the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and the International Maritime Organization (IMO).

International aviation accounts for approximately half a billion tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions a year and has an even wider impact on the climate from other (non-CO2) emissions.

A deal this fall to cap carbon emissions from global aviation at 2020 levels must be enforceable and set long - term goals in line with the 2015 Paris agreement on climate change, a coalition of environmental groups said.

Re the cost of flying, there are lots of assumptions around because of different ways of using or ignoring a 1999 report on aviation's role in global warming [Aviation and the Global Atmosphere] for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — the effects of flying are much worse than would be predicted by just burning the oil.

A recommendation was also made regarding the coordination and expansion of existing and planned climate research programs focusing on aviation.

There's little in the Paris climate agreement or the deals on HFCs and aviation that could be described as transformative.

While retaining a technical question about aviation law, the half - hour excerpt from the 75 - minute discussion did not include Mr. Branson's comments about what he said was his most important public priority — working for peace in conflict zones — and his long, and provocative, statements on carbon dioxide and climate, including his thoughts on geo - engineering, his big prize for removing CO2 from the air and the climate treaty.

Hence, the global aviation sector must have both zero CO2 emissions and zero non-CO2 effects on the climate by the end of the century.

On the other hand, both shipping and aviation have recently agreed international climate goals, which could give cover to a decision to continue holding them outside the UK's targets.

While countries are discussing how to implement the Paris climate deal to avert the worst impacts of climate change, the UN aviation body, ICAO, is having their own conversation on climate.

«Globally, aviation we think is responsible for between 2.5 and a little under 5 percent of anthropogenic climate change effects,» said Dan Rutherford, aviation and marine program director for the International Council on Clean Transportation.

Climate activists are urging a carbon tax on shipping and aviation not only to spur reductions in climate pollution but as a revenue source to finance global climate mitiClimate activists are urging a carbon tax on shipping and aviation not only to spur reductions in climate pollution but as a revenue source to finance global climate miticlimate pollution but as a revenue source to finance global climate miticlimate mitigation.

It also notes that policy - makers have largely failed to take the tourism industry's emissions seriously on the global stage — international aviation, for instance, is currently excluded from the Paris climate agreement, and the only UN-backed aviation emissions standards on the books are weak as hell.

The potential effects that aviation has had in the past and may have in the future on both stratospheric ozone depletion and global climate change are covered; environmental impacts of aviation at the local scale, however, are not addressed.

In October 2016, countries are expected to agree on a climate goal that should ensure a cap on aviation emissions at 2020 levels, termed carbon neutral growth 2020 (CNG2020).

Following the Paris Agreement, 2016 will be another crucial year for climate as countries are set to adopt the first ever agreement on limiting the emissions of the aviation sector.

Coffel, E., and R. Horton, 2015: Climate change and the impact of extreme temperatures on aviation.

This activity report briefly presents the activities implemented by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and the International Maritime Organization (IMO) respectively to reduce the impact of GHG emissions from international aviation on the global climate and to improve energy efficiency and reduce GHG emissions from international maritime transport.

ICAO maintains close relations with other UN policy - making bodies that have expressed an interest in civil aviation, notably with the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, to which it provides regular statements on ICAO's emission - related activities.

In the interests of saving the planet, IPCC honcho Rajendra Pachauri demands the introduction of punitive aviation taxes and hotel electricity allowances to deter the masses from travelling, while he flies 300,000 miles a year on official «business» and research for his recent warmographic novel in which a climate activist travels the world bedding big - breasted women who are amazed by his sustainable growth.

After the Paris Agreement and a deal on emissions from international aviation, shipping is the last sector to contribute to global climate action.

A special report into aviation by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in 1999 estimated that aeroplanes were responsible for 3.5 % of total human - caused radiative forcing, excluding the impact of clouds.

The UK's Committee on Climate Change says that national growth in aviation demand must be limited to 60 % in order to meet the government's target of keeping emissions in 2050 at 2005 levels.

Hosted by the International Air Trade Association (IATA) and the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA), First Climate is participating in a series of workshops on carbon compensation for members of the international aviation industry.

4 September 2007, Strasbourg - Current proposals to include aviation in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme will have very little impact on aviation's contribution to climate change, a new report by leading climate scientists warns today.

Friends of the Earth Europe insists that other measures are also required to tackle the growth in aviation's impact on climate change, such as a tax on aviation fuel [4].

Friends of the Earth insists that other measures are also required to tackle the growth in aviation's impact on climate change, such as a tax on aviation fuel [4].

New scientific analysis released today on the impacts of the aviation industry on our climate should give pause to government and industry leaders.

In an August 15 article In These Times online, Burleson is quoted as criticizing our report on NextGen, aviation, and climate change (which he refers to as «Piltz's study») for being «factually inaccurate.»

«The European Parliament has failed to back proposals to significantly cut aviation's impact on climate change.

So, even if ICAO stays true to its new year's resolution in 2018, it must recognise that CORSIA is only the first step on the way towards meaningful climate action from the aviation sector.

It is only sensible that we should do so, and if we do, and if in particular we reach the conclusion that they should use the methodology implied in the impact assessment and not the absurd methods used by Sir Nicholas Stern, now Lord Stern — he received his reward — they would reach a conclusion very similar to that advocated by the hon. Gentleman on Second Reading: that we should put far more emphasis on adaptation to helping poor countries cope with climate change, rather than on crippling our industries — aviation, shipping and all the other industries — to little avail.

That this House welcomes the Prime Minister's decision to ask the Shadow Committee on Climate Change for early advice on the Climate Change Bill to inform the final stages of debate in Parliament; congratulates the Committee and its chair Lord Turner for providing robust advice despite the time pressure; welcomes their recommendation that the United Kingdom should be more ambitious in its target with cuts in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050; further welcomes Lord Turner's further statement that this should include all emissions, including aviation and shipping; and urges all parties to support amendments to incorporate these changes in the Climate Change Bill.

These initiatives put aviation on a path to address its climate impact, but are heavily opposed by the industry, which demands continued exemptions from such efforts to reduce the sector's greenhouse gas emissions.

Representing 250 airlines, or 94 percent of scheduled international air traffic, the IATA has a huge influence on the aviation sector, and it's great to see this organization at least recognizing climate change as a major problem, though disagreements remain, both within the industry and from outside pressure groups, as to the way forward in tackling this issue.

Our findings regarding global radiative forcing by contrail cirrus will allow their effects to be included in studies assessing the impacts of aviation on climate and appropriate mitigation options.

The summary related aviation's role relative to all human influence on the climate system: «The best estimate of the radiative forcing in 1992 by aircraft is 0.05 W m — 2 or about 3.5 % of the total radiative forcing by all anthropogenic activities.»

The UK must answer difficult questions on climate change, food security, aviation and more as it leaves the EU on 29 March 2019