The airline blamed difficulties securing more efficient aircraft and sustainable jet fuel.

Air New Zealand has abandoned a 2030 goal to cut its carbon emissions, blaming difficulties securing more efficient planes and sustainable jet fuel.

The move makes it the first major carrier to back away from such a climate target.

The airline added it is working on a new short-term target and it remains committed to an industry-wide goal of achieving net zero emissions by 2050.

The aviation industry is estimated to produce around 2% of global carbon dioxide emissions, which airlines have been trying to reduce with measures including replacing older aircraft and using fuel from renewable sources.

  • intrepidEnglish
    24·
    4 months ago

    I get how hard it is to cut down on airline emissions. But the strict requirements on budget has significantly improved that number over the past few decades. Aircraft engines today are much less polluting than they were 30 or 50 years ago. Perhaps the goals shouldn’t be dropped so easily.

    What scares me about this is how lightly climate change is taken. “Yeah, I don’t think we can do it. So we’re going to just stop trying”. Do you even realize what sort of trouble the humanity and this planet is in? Especially for a country dominated by its coastline?

    • Zron@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      4 months ago

      Profit this quarter matters more to these people than how many die in the next century.

      They’d rather make a dollar today than save a life tomorrow.

      • chiliedogg@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        4 months ago

        If only they valued future lives at a dollar.

        Billions are going to die and people are selling out for a few hundred bucks a year.

    • AA5B@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      4 months ago

      Is it hard? I thought we were set on an international biofuel standard and it is mostly a matter of being willing to spend more to scale up.