Contrails: Key Information
Courtesy of Contrails.org
$20.66
Contrail Avoidance would cost an estimated $20.66 per flight (not per passenger), or between $1–$2 per tonne of COâ‚‚ equivalent warming avoided.
Contrails are currently estimated to cause 50% of aviation's total climate impact (over a 20-year period). It could be even more.
50%
19%
The share taken up by aviation for the remaining temperature budget (if 2° of Global Warming will be avoided by 2050) is 19%.
2%
Contrails are estimated to cause 1-2% of the man-made Global Warming. This is comparable to all of the emissions from a country the size of Germany or Japan.
1999
The first International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report on contrails was published way back in 1999.
3%
Only 2-3% of flights cause 80% of contrails' climate impact, so wide-scale contrai avoidance is possible
2040
Aviation is expected to become the highest emitting sector in the UK by 2040. Contrails are currently not regulated in the UK.
The number of airlines currently informing customers of contrail warming risk at the point of flight booking is 0. Also, Google Flights is the only flight search aggregator which is transparent about contrails.
0
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