{"id":457427,"date":"2021-12-21T09:38:53","date_gmt":"2021-12-21T04:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=457427"},"modified":"2021-12-21T10:08:50","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T04:38:50","slug":"blue-sky-thinking-net-zero-aviation-is-more-than-a-flight-of-fantasy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/blue-sky-thinking-net-zero-aviation-is-more-than-a-flight-of-fantasy\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue-sky thinking: Net-zero aviation is more than a flight of fantasy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PRI GEN INT .QUEENSLAND FGN8 NET-ZERO-AVIATION Blue-sky thinking: net-zero aviation is more than a flight of fantasy By Emma Rachel Whittlesea, Senior Research Fellow &amp; Tim RyleyProfessor and Head of Griffith Aviation, Griffith University Queensland, Dec 20 (The Conversation) As international air travel rebounds after COVID-19 restrictions, greenhouse gas emissions from aviation are expected to rise dramatically and with it, scrutiny of the industry&#8217;s environmental credentials. Aviation emissions have almost doubled since 2000 and in 2018 reached one billion tonnes. Climate Action Tracker rates the industry&#8217;s climate performance as critically insufficient. As the climate change threat rapidly worsens, can aviation make the transition to a low-carbon future and perhaps even reach net-zero emissions? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PRI GEN INT .QUEENSLAND FGN8 NET-ZERO-AVIATION Blue-sky thinking: net-zero aviation is more than a flight of fantasy By Emma Rachel Whittlesea, Senior Research Fellow &amp; Tim RyleyProfessor and Head of Griffith Aviation, Griffith University Queensland, Dec 20 (The Conversation) As international air travel rebounds after COVID-19 restrictions, greenhouse gas emissions from aviation are expected to rise dramatically and with it, scrutiny of the industry&#8217;s environmental credentials. Aviation emissions have almost doubled since 2000 and in 2018 reached one billion tonnes. Climate Action Tracker rates the industry&#8217;s climate performance as critically insufficient. As the climate change threat rapidly worsens, can aviation [&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":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-457427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457427","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=457427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}