Air New Zealand scraps 2030 carbon emissions target saying solutions are costly and scarce – Watts Up With That?
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By Paul Homewood
From the Independent:
Air New Zealand on Tuesday scrapped its 2030 carbon emissions reduction target, citing delays in new aircraft production, a lack of alternative fuels and “challenging” policy and regulatory settings.
The move by the national carrier – one of New Zealand’s largest companies by revenue – is a reversal of an airline’s commitment to a United Nations framework for corporations to stay on track to meet the Paris Agreement on emissions reduction, highlighting the barriers that carriers and policymakers face in cutting aviation emissions.
“If even Air New Zealand can’t do it, it reinforces the fact that reducing emissions from the aviation industry is an impossible task under the current engineering regime,” said James Higham, an expert in sustainable tourism at Griffith University in New Zealand. Australia.
Tuesday’s update is a major departure from Air New Zealand’s 2022 announcement, in which it announced it was the second airline in the world to have its plans endorsed by the United Nations Science Based Targets Initiative aviation framework. The airline pledged to reduce its carbon emissions by 28.9% by 2030, compared to a 2019 baseline, for a 16.3% absolute emissions reduction.
The ambition to achieve net zero emissions is slowly reaching the edge of reality.
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