{"id":357280,"date":"2020-06-15T10:51:47","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T05:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=357280"},"modified":"2020-06-15T11:13:26","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T05:43:26","slug":"uk-announces-jet-zero-plan-to-drive-down-aviation-emissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/uk-announces-jet-zero-plan-to-drive-down-aviation-emissions\/","title":{"rendered":"UK announces \u2018Jet Zero\u2019 plan to drive down aviation emissions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.K. aims to drive down greenhouse gas emissions from aviation to make carbon-free transatlantic flights possible within a generation, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Shapps said he has formed a group bringing together leaders from aviation, environmental groups and government to form the \u201cJet Zero Council,\u201d as he seeks to rebuild the industry in the wake of the Covid pandemic. The industry is determined to have a \u201cgreener restart,\u201d he said in the government\u2019s daily coronavirus briefing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis group will be charged with making net zero emissions possible for future flights,\u201d Shapps said. \u201cOur goal, within a generation, will be to demonstrate flight across the Atlantic without harming the environment.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.K. aims to drive down greenhouse gas emissions from aviation to make carbon-free transatlantic flights possible within a generation, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said on Friday. Shapps said he has formed a group bringing together leaders from aviation, environmental groups and government to form the \u201cJet Zero Council,\u201d as he seeks to rebuild the industry in the wake of the Covid pandemic. The industry is determined to have a \u201cgreener restart,\u201d he said in the government\u2019s daily coronavirus briefing. \u201cThis group will be charged with making net zero emissions possible for future flights,\u201d Shapps said. \u201cOur goal, within a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-357280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}