{"id":28999,"date":"2021-02-27T04:00:06","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T19:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2021\/feb\/27\/sustainable-aviation-fuel-is-the-only-way-forward-if-we-want-to-keep-flying"},"modified":"2021-02-27T04:00:06","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T19:00:06","slug":"sustainable-aviation-fuel-is-the-only-way-forward-if-we-want-to-keep-flying-paul-callister-and-robert-mclachlan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=28999","title":{"rendered":"Sustainable aviation fuel is the only way forward if we want to keep flying | Paul Callister and Robert McLachlan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The targets envisioned by the Paris Agreement leave no room for fossil fuelled commercial aviation by 2050<\/p>\n<p>Aviation is an important part of the global economy; until Covid-19, it was responsible for 2.8% of global CO2 emissions. In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/newzealand\">New Zealand<\/a>, aviation is responsible for an even higher percentage of CO2 emissions, the figure having doubled since 1990 to 13% in 2018. The country\u2019s geographic isolation, transport system, international tourist industry, and globally dispersed families have all contributed to the jump in growth and will make reducing emissions a challenge.<\/p>\n<p>But New Zealand has signed up to net zero emissions by 2050 and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/07\/ardern-says-new-zealand-on-right-side-of-history-as-mps-pass-zero-carbon-bill\">enacted the Zero Carbon Act<\/a>, which aims to implement policies that will limit the global average temperature increase to 1.5C, in line with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/paris-climate-agreement\">Paris Agreement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2021\/feb\/27\/sustainable-aviation-fuel-is-the-only-way-forward-if-we-want-to-keep-flying\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The targets envisioned by the Paris Agreement leave no room for fossil fuelled commercial aviation by 2050Aviation is an important part of the global economy; until Covid-19, it was responsible for 2.8% of global CO2 emissions. In New Zealand, aviation&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1958,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,56,835,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","category-paris-climate-agreement","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1958"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29001,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28999\/revisions\/29001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}