{"id":7444,"date":"2022-11-13T06:00:29","date_gmt":"2022-11-13T06:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.insightvacations.com\/?p=7444"},"modified":"2024-05-16T18:04:28","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T17:04:28","slug":"sustainable-flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.insightvacations.com\/blog\/sustainable-flights\/","title":{"rendered":"Are sustainable flights almost within our reach? Insight investigates"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Climate change is the biggest crisis of our time and in response, it seems everything is going green from our homes and workplaces to cars and energy sources. But what about our planes? The fuel-guzzling aviation industry accounts for over 3.5% of global CO2 emissions<\/a>, with almost 40 million<\/a> passenger flights taking off in 2019. After the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, that figure dropped to 16.9 million global flights, and experts say it will take until 2024 to get flight numbers back to 2019 levels. But when travellers inevitably return to the skies in their billions<\/a>, will it be business as usual? Or will the aviation industry switch its focus to sustainable air travel? Insight investigates how close we really are to sustainable flights.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The 2021 International Air Transport Association<\/a> (IATA) Annual General Meeting saw the world\u2019s largest airlines commit to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, in line with the Paris Agreement goals to limit global warming to 1.5\u00b0C. That\u2019s a lofty goal, so Insight has dug a little deeper into the current realities of sustainable air travel to find out what\u2019s being done to get there.<\/p>\n

Read more: How to remove (some of) the stress of air travel this summer<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n[anemos_empty_space]

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