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The Roadmap \u201eTowards Climate-Neutral Aviation<\/a>\u201c by Ralf F\u00fccks (Zentrum Libe\u00adrale Moderne), Mat\u00adthias von Randow (Chief Exe\u00adcu\u00adtive of the BDL) and Volker Thum (Chief Exe\u00adcu\u00adtive of the BDLI) sum\u00adma\u00adri\u00adzes the results of a series of dis\u00adcus\u00adsions with members of the Bun\u00addes\u00adtag, the repre\u00adsen\u00adta\u00adtives of federal and state minis\u00adteries, the avia\u00adtion indus\u00adtry and inde\u00adpen\u00addent experts. The key finding is that making air travel com\u00adpa\u00adti\u00adble with climate pro\u00adtec\u00adtion is a rea\u00adlistic goal. However, a successful transition to climate-neutral air travel can only be achie\u00adved if science, industry, airlines, airports, and political actors join their efforts.<\/span> An appro\u00adpriate regu\u00adla\u00adtory frame\u00adwork for avia\u00adtion and a major effort to develop tech\u00adni\u00adcal inno\u00adva\u00adtions to market matu\u00adrity are needed now. <\/em><\/h3>\nLibMod_\u200bRoadmap_\u200bClimateNeutralAviation\u20111<\/a>\n

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Air travel is the transport infra\u00adstructure of our globalized world \u2013 a physical world wide web<\/em>. It enables personal encounters across national borders. It makes politics, business, science, culture, and sports more inter\u00adna\u00adtional. It is also the means of transport of global tourism. Migrants visit their families, students use oppor\u00adtu\u00adnities for inter\u00adna\u00adtional exchange, and non-govern\u00admental organi\u00adza\u00adtions also network globally. Video confer\u00adences and video chats can only ever be partial substi\u00adtutes for face-to-face encounters.<\/p>\n

Until the COVID-19 pandemic caused a dramatic drop in passenger numbers, plunging the aviation industry into dire crisis, the evolution of passenger numbers knew only one direction: upwards. Between 2013 and 2018, aviation volumes in the European Union increased by 26 percent. In 2019, about 4.5 billion passengers travelled by air worldwide, a figure that was projected to double to about 9 billion by 2040.<\/p>\n

The COVID-19 crisis caused an unprece\u00addented collapse of air traffic. A large portion of European airlines are currently in the red. The industry\u2019s financial strength is waning. Demand for new, more environ\u00admen\u00adtally friendly aircraft has plummeted drasti\u00adcally, which heightens the urgent need to promote climate-friendly innova\u00adtions in air transport within the framework of the \u201cEuropean Green Deal\u201d and other government programs.<\/p>\n

It is virtually impos\u00adsible to predict with any degree of relia\u00adbility how quickly aviation will recover from the COVID-19 crisis and how it will evolve in the future. From a global perspective, however, demand for air transport will grow again. With rising incomes in devel\u00adoping countries and their integration into the global economy, private and commercial air travel will increase in the long term. A growing global middle class also means a growing number of potential air passengers.<\/p>\n

This is why it is so important to make air travel climate-neutral. Today, air traffic is causing about three percent of global CO2<\/sub> emissions. Its actual contri\u00adbution to the green\u00adhouse effect, however, is greater due to additional climate effects (nitrogen oxides, water vapor, etc.). The IPCC puts the contri\u00adbution of aviation to total green\u00adhouse gas effects at up to five percent. Given the global trend, radically restricting air traffic is not a realistic option. It might be discussed in a country like Germany. It is not even up for debate in China, India, the US, and aspiring devel\u00adoping countries.<\/p>\n

At the same time, however, aviation \u2013 like all other economic sectors \u2013 has committed itself to the goal of climate neutrality. This move towards climate-neutral air travel offers great oppor\u00adtu\u00adnities for Germany and Europe to become pioneers of a future industry, from aircraft construction and propulsion technology to the production of climate-neutral fuels at an indus\u00adtrial scale.<\/p>\n

Avenues Towards Climate-Neutral Air Traffic<\/h2>\n

In this context, the Zentrum Liberale Moderne, the German Air Transport Associ\u00adation (BDL) and the German Aerospace Indus\u00adtries Associ\u00adation (BDLI) held a series of talks with members of the German Bundestag, repre\u00adsen\u00adta\u00adtives of federal and state ministries, and scien\u00adtific experts throughout 2020. Our focus was on avenues towards climate-neutral air travel and the political course we need to set to attain this target. The following is a summary of our key takeaways from this series of talks, our \u201cRoadmap Towards Sustainable Air Travel\u201d.<\/p>\n

Our key finding is that making air travel compatible with climate protection is a realistic goal. There is a broad consensus between the aviation industry, science, and politics on the potential for climate-neutral air travel. The question is no longer \u201cwhether\u201d, but \u201chow\u201d, i. e. with which concrete measures and instru\u00adments, we can reconcile climate policy goals with a functioning inter\u00adna\u00adtional aviation system.<\/p>\n

You can download a PDF-version of the Roadmap Towards Climate-Neutral Air Travel here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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