During November world leaders, and a multitude of others drawn from governments, ‘observer’ organisations, and the media, will gather in Egypt for COP27, the latest in a series of United Nations climate conferences tasked with moving nations on in their efforts to deal with climate change. The last COP event was held in Scotland and was attended by 40,000 delegates, so in itself was a massive logistical event for aviation. Despite promises to be a carbon-neutral conference, boasting reusable coffee cups and paperless draft documents, the event was estimated to be the highest-emitting UN environmental summit to date. No doubt a successful COP27 will also generate large volumes of CO2 emissions, not least in flying the delegates there and back.
The best of intentions are sometimes hard to deliver, we know that in aviation. Delivering net zero by 2050, as was committed to by the international air industry at the ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organization) meeting in October…
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