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@StayGroundedNet
Jun 29, 2022 • 9 tweets • 8 min read • Read on X
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Not enough!

The EU has taken several decisions on air transport this week - and failed to bring it on track for 1.5 degrees.

We need pressure to get the EU to do more!
#Thread 🧵
1/ Reality check: EU is failing to keep us on track for 1.5 deg
June 24
🇪🇺 reveals new Alliance for Zero Emission Aviation to “make hydrogen-powered & electric aircraft a reality” – even the industry itself acknowledges: options won’t be viable until it's too late - 2035-40 at best - & will only fly a few hundred km stay-grounded.org/greenwashing/#… 2/
June 27- #Fitfor55 aviation package: Transport MEPs set impossible targets for using 85% fossil fuel substitutes #SAFs for ✈️ by 2050.
IATA targets for substituting even 5-10% fossil kerosene have NEVER been met since they started to set targets in 2008!
europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-…
But...even if fuel substitution targets were met, using a “Sustainable Aviation Fund”, it’s a massive climate injustice to use public funds to decarbonise the most unequal form of transport, the industry should pay!
4/
Making fuel from waste & exhaust gas as the EU proposes is SO expensive the ✈️ industry would have to rely on even more subsidies – tax money – to cover production costs & alternative jet fuels will won’t eliminate the total climate impact of flights.
stay-grounded.org/greenwashing/#…
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Using animal fats 🐄 to produce jet fuel as the EU proposes to do, increases the value of waste products from the beef industry through biofuel production while perpetuating a slew of serious environmental & social impacts – See our Omega study - stay-grounded.org/agrofuel-case-…
6/
June 28 – Environment Council agreed to include non-CO2 impacts of flights in #EUETS revision – it's a start but doesn’t go far enough for addressing 2/3 of aviation's impacts on global heating – see our open letter for demands! 7/ stay-grounded.org/eu-ets-revisio…
Find more on the recommendations here:
europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-…

ec.europa.eu/commission/pre…

consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press…
@robin_wood @transenv @foeeurope @CarbonMrktWatch @BackOnTrackEU @GreenpeaceEU @ResistanceCC @BUNDjugend @fff_europe @ambodenbleiben @MenosAvioes @ecologistas

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