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"I am baffled by the lack of attention that governments here and around the world are paying to the fact that we simply don’t have the capacity to make all the SAF everyone is relying on, said one senior British fuel industry executive"
#greenwashing
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/29/climate/planes-sustainable-fuel-flight.html

A 🎣 salmon company bought a #Boeing757 to “cut its carbon footprint by flying fish in its own jet across the Atlantic” instead via Heathrow.

To ✂️ the carbon footprint, air freight has to be reduced, otherwise it’s just a fish tale 🐟.
#Bullshitflights

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/21/salmon-firm-plan-fly-fish-boeing-757-alarms-campaigners

Interested in discussion aviation's climate impact and ways to reduce it? Join this new Twitter Community: https://twitter.com/i/communities/1542452527244902401

Find more on the recommendations here:
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20220627IPR33913/fit-for-55-transport-meps-set-ambitious-targets-for-greener-aviation-fuels

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_22_3854

https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2022/06/29/fit-for-55-council-reaches-general-approaches-relating-to-emissions-reductions-and-removals-and-their-social-impacts/

June 28 – Environment Council agreed to include non-CO2 impacts of flights in #EUETS revision – it's a start but doesn’t go far enough for addressing 2/3 of aviation's impacts on global heating – see our open letter for demands! 7/ https://stay-grounded.org/eu-ets-revision-civil-society-calls-on-eu-to-stop-ignoring-two-thirds-of-aviations-climate-impact/

Using animal fats 🐄 to produce jet fuel as the EU proposes to do, increases the value of waste products from the beef industry through biofuel production while perpetuating a slew of serious environmental & social impacts – See our Omega study - https://stay-grounded.org/agrofuel-case-study/
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Making fuel from waste & exhaust gas as the EU proposes is SO expensive the ✈️ industry would have to rely on even more subsidies – tax money – to cover production costs & alternative jet fuels will won’t eliminate the total climate impact of flights.
https://stay-grounded.org/greenwashing/#Hydrogen
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But...even if fuel substitution targets were met, using a “Sustainable Aviation Fund”, it’s a massive climate injustice to use public funds to decarbonise the most unequal form of transport, the industry should pay!
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June 27- #Fitfor55 aviation package: Transport MEPs set impossible targets for using 85% fossil fuel substitutes #SAFs for ✈️ by 2050.
IATA targets for substituting even 5-10% fossil kerosene have NEVER been met since they started to set targets in 2008!
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20220627IPR33913/fit-for-55-transport-meps-set-ambitious-targets-for-greener-aviation-fuels

June 24
🇪🇺 reveals new Alliance for Zero Emission Aviation to “make hydrogen-powered & electric aircraft a reality” – even the industry itself acknowledges: options won’t be viable until it's too late - 2035-40 at best - & will only fly a few hundred km https://stay-grounded.org/greenwashing/#Electric-flight 2/

Not enough!

The EU has taken several decisions on air transport this week - and failed to bring it on track for 1.5 degrees.

We need pressure to get the EU to do more!
#Thread 🧵
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