The report, commissioned by the environmental justice organization Friends of the Earth, provides the first detailed analysis of whether Heathrow expansion is compatible with the UK’s legal carbon budgets.
Recent approvals of airport expansion at Gatwick, Stansted, Luton and many other locations mean that UK aviation is already projected to exceed its share of the Seventh Carbon Budget (2038–42) by between 21% and 50%, depending on how much sustainable aviation fuel materializes. That is before any Heathrow expansion takes place.
The analysis concludes that the two technologies relied on to allow passenger growth or airport expansion to fit within carbon budgets—sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) and greenhouse gas removals (GGR)—are not even close to being on track for sufficient capacity within the required time frame.
The UK High Court has decided that climate studies need to be done for all projects. This includes more drilling in the North Sea; it’s not on.
The studies do not just look at drilling or whatever; they look at the effects of burning the fuel. Society has had a free ride, just polluting the atmosphere. That is over in jolly old England.
Side note about something else out of the EU/UK. Single-use plastic should be outlawed in the US. It is obscene.
Asia is a hotspot for infrastucture development projects with China, in particular, in the midst of a programme to upgrade its existing airports and build dozens more…China has been building and expanding airports unrelentingly since the early 2000s…
Many of China’s existing major airports are expanding with new runways, passenger terminals, and cargo facilities. Large-scale expansions are currently being planned or constructed at Changsha, Chongqing, Fuzhou, Guangzhou, Haerbin, Kunming, Lanzhou, Nanchang, Ningbo, Sanya, Shenzhen, Shijiazhuang, Shanghai Pudong, Taiyuan, Tianjin, Urumqi, Xi’an, Xining, and Zhuhai…
With traffic booming again it seems likely to be only a matter of time before airport operator Angkasa Pura II, updates and relaunches its pre-COVID plan to build a fourth passenger terminal at Jakarta’s Soekarno-Hatta International Airport…Meanwhile, to address long-term growth in Jakarta, there are proposals to build a second airport on a 3,000-hectare site about 50 kilometres southwest of Jakarta that could handle around 70 million passengers per annum.
