Aviation and the climate - an overview

Abstract

Purpose – To give an overview of topics related to aviation and climate change. --- Methodology – A presentation of results from literature reviews and own calculations. --- Findings – Renewable energy will by far not be sufficient to maintain flying at the level we know today (2019). It is therefore paramount to reduce flying as it happened already during the Corona pandemic. If we do not gently start changing the aviation industry now, laws of physics will tell us, with the consequence that our children will later struggle harder to make the necessary transformation.