BREAKING: The UN aviation agency @ICAO@twitter.com has just adopted a new long-term climate target - #NetZero by 2050
It's highly insufficient & will lead to the aviation industry massively overshooting its fair share of global emissions: https://stay-grounded.org/factsheets/netzero
#ICAOA41 #FlyNetZero
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#ICAOA41 #NetZero: No binding targets
#ICAO's net-zero target is not binding for states. They still have no obligation to reduce emissions sufficiently to meet the 1.5 degree limit.
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#ICAOA41 #NetZero: No intermediate targets
ICAO's net-zero target does not include interim targets until 2050, but if aviation continues to grow as expected, it will have used up its fair share of the remaining emissions budget well before 2050.
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#ICAOA41 #NetZero: Addressing only carbon emissions
The net-zero target addresses carbon emissions only. However, the climate impact of aviation is about three times higher than its CO2 emissions alone. ICAO ignores this in its target.
https://stay-grounded.org/fact-sheet-climate-impact/
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#ICAOA41 #NetZero: Relying on unrealistic tech solutions
ICAO, like the aviation industry, is relying on technological solutions to reduce aviation emissions. But all these technologies have problems and limits and are not yet available: https://stay-grounded.org/greenwashing/
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#ICAOA41 #NetZero: Relying on offsetting
Until now, international aviation has only been "regulated" by the CORSIA scheme. It's an ineffective greenwashing tool that is completely ineffective. Now it has been watered down again, as @transenv@twitter.com analyses. https://www.transportenvironment.org/discover/un-body-icao-hails-empty-goal-and-cheap-offsetting-scheme-to-green-aviation/
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With the offsetting scheme put forward by the UN agency for aviation, ICAO, a mere 22% of total international emissions would be offset by 2030, new data by Transport & Environment (T&E) finds.
#ICAOA41 #NetZero: Where does this ineffective target come from?
An analysis by @InfluenceMap@twitter.com has just shown: #ICAO is massively influenced by corporate interests:
https://twitter.com/StayGroundedNet/status/1578349732694401024
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“Unveiled: The UN aviation agency (@ICAO) is captured by corporate interests 📈🤑! Right in time for #ICAOA41 a new report by @Influencemap reveals how corporate interests influence the global climate policy at the UN agency for aviation. Why is this so concerning? 🧵⬇️”
We have just published a detailed analysis of the #NetZero target of the aviation industry and #ICAO. The result: it does NOT mean that aviation will stay within a carbon budget for 1.5 degrees. Not at all.
Read all the details here:
https://stay-grounded.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/SG_factsheet_9-22_Net-Zero_en_A4.pdf
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ICAO is doing nothing to reduce aviation's climate impact. #ICAOA41
We have to fight for change ourselves: there will be numerous actions against aviation and its negative impacts in the coming months and in 2023. #AviAction
Get more information:
https://stay-grounded.org/climate-activists-announce-international-protests-as-un-aviation-agency-adopts-insufficient-climate-target/
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