When you have a duplicitous ICAO hyping an ETS that doesn't start until 2027, doesn't include domestic flights and sets a price of carbon low enough not to cost airlines too much, what does the world expect?
In contrast to Maritime Shipping that has an actual plan:
- The aviation industry has NO plan to transition off hydrocarbon based fuel.
- ASK growth forecast at 5% per annum
- By mid century it will be among the largest emitters of CO2
- Airlines only required to report CO2 output from January 2019. (Data isn't published by the regulator, wonder why?)
Airlines can without penalty continue to consume increased amounts of hydrocarbon based fuel with scant penalty.
A little virtue signalling and carry on about electric aircraft, laminar flow and bio-fuels will stop the debate. Of course fingers crossed nobody notices that technically feasible it may be, but practical none of the alternatives are.
Any wonder why airlines do the same? Is all kabuki theatre.