The climate crisis is one of the greatest challenges we face.
At the Environmental Audit Committee, we are scrutinising the Seventh Carbon Budget to find out how realistic and deliverable it is. This is a series of five-year plans to get the UK to net zero emissions by 2050. The Seventh Budget has a target to reduce carbon emissions down from 965 million tonnes to 535 million tonnes.
Air travel is one of our big carbon emitters, especially private planes. We need to look at how to reduce aviation’s carbon footprint whilst we preserve its benefits.
Watch me ask Jonathan Counsell, Group Sustainability Director at International Airlines Group, what progress we can make with scaling up Sustainable Aviation Fuels and airspace modernisation to reduce our carbon emissions.