Business as usual could cost $1 trillion in carbon removal.
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With business continuing as usual, climate pollution from aviation could nearly triple by 2050 as demand for air travel grows, according to a new. It would cost up to $1 trillion to try to remove enough of that pollution from the atmosphere to meet global climate goals — an untenable situation.$26.4 billion in profits
in 2019 before the covid pandemic curbed travel. And even if airlines can pay to remove all their emissions from the atmosphere, that’s still not guaranteed to slow climate change. While carbon offsets — paying to cancel out your climate pollution through green projects like planting trees — are popular,A surefire way to cut down that pollution is to keep the aviation sector from expanding asas it did for years before the covid pandemic.
The authors of the new study mapped out ways for aviation to reach net-zero carbon dioxide emissions, a point when the industry no longer pumps out more CO2 pollution than it can take out of the atmosphere. Back in 2021, the International Air Transport Association set a
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