The sky’s the limit: Can green flying ever take off?
The head of one of the world’s biggest airlines has described carbon offset schemes as a ‘fraud’, writes Nick Ferris. So what should the industry be doing to tackle pollution, while causing minimal turbulence?
The end of last month marked an aviation milestone: on 20 July, there were more planes in the sky than ever before on a single day – 262,000 of them – as recorded by website Flightradar24.
At the same time as these kerosene-burning planes made their journeys, tens of thousands of tourists were being forced to flee holiday resorts, as wildfires fuelled by the climate crisis ripped across southern Europe.
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