Aviation and climate change

a global sectored approach is the need of the hour

Banu, Sqn Ldr (Retd) Sabitha

College of Management Studies, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun, India

Corresponding author: [email protected]; [email protected]

Received July 11, 2011

Accepted September 8, 2011

International Journal of Low-Carbon Technologies 7(2):p 137-142, June 2012. | DOI: 10.1093/ijlct/ctr030

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has estimated that ill-effects of carbon emissions will grow to 5% by 2050. Although ICAO had initially endorsed the idea of the emissions trading system to meet CO₂ emission reduction objectives, prospects for a comprehensive global agreement appear to be distant, and a multi-faceted approach is required with a strong commitment from all stakeholders. Other options could be the usage of carbon neutral fuels, coming from biomass, algae and most recently the usage of CO₂ in the air and water in the atmosphere, and then the Fischer Tropsche process to combine the H₂ and CO₂ together to produce oil (Louise and Paul. Aviation and climate change. House of Commons Library, 2008).