thebeakerblog: Should aircraft emissions be more tightly...

thebeakerblog:

Should aircraft emissions be more tightly regulated? 

A recent editorial in Nature seems to think so, saying that while airplanes are a “relatively slight (although growing) contribution to the global-warming problem,” both governments and the industry need to do more to tamp down emissions. 

Most international frameworks to tackle carbon emissions struggle to include aviation. When the European Union tried to encompass emissions from international aviation in its emissions-trading scheme in 2012, it met with widespread protest from the industry and governments.

Read the full editorial in Nature:  “Green Sky Thinking: Environmental agencies must go much further in regulating aircraft emissions if they want to make a real difference.”

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I don’t think there’s any reason that we shouldn’t more tightly regulate airplane emissions.

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