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Claims of sustainability or low-carbon flying are being challenged in court.
Given its environmental damage, tourism must seriously reconsider its purpose in a post-pandemic world.
We analysed what the world’s top 58 airlines – such as American Airlines, British Airways and Qantas – are doing about climate change. Even the best airlines are not doing anywhere near enough.
Those backing Heathrow’s proposed new runway want to depoliticise the issue entirely. But hard choices are inevitable.
The development of alternative airline fuels needs serious support from national governments if we are going to see greener skies overhead any time soon.
The airline industry’s promised technological solutions have not arrived, and they never will.
The general response to carbon tax is not a positive one, but it may be something South Africa will need to accept.
The EPA said it will regulate emissions from airplanes – the latest in a string of environmental and climate regulations Obama has used to bypass the Republican-led Congress.
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Professor of Sustainable Tourism, Griffith Institute for Tourism, Griffith University
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Professor in Public Policy, De Montfort University
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Professor in Service Management and Service Studies, Lund University
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Senior Lecturer of Mechanical Engineering, University of Sheffield
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Lecturer in sustainability and energy, Stellenbosch University
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Associated Professor Sustainable Tourism and Transport, NHTV Breda University of Applied Sciences
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Professor of Ideology and Discourse Analysis, University of Essex
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Professor of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University
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Professor of Tourism, Griffith University
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PhD Candidate, Climate Litigation, University College Dublin
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Senior Lecturer in Tourism, University of Surrey
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Adjunct Professor of Transport, University of Technology Sydney