«The world simply can not
meet its climate targets unless high meat - consuming nations like the U.S. substantially cut emissions associated with meat - and dairy - intensive diets,» said
Soon after the delay to the decision was announced by Hoon last Christmas, the Miliband and Benn camps both contacted the Institute for Public Policy Research, over a pamphlet by Simon Retallack, the IPPR's head of
climate change, arguing that the third runway should not go ahead
unless the government required aircraft using it to
meet the aviation industry's own
targets to cut carbon dioxide emissions and noise in new aircraft by 50 % and nitrogen oxides by 80 % by 2020.
Multi-gas Emissions Pathways to
Meet Climate Targets, Climatic Change 75 (1): 151 - 194, estimates that this would require global emission reductions of over 5 % per year,
unless more CO2 was removed from the atmosphere later.