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David Hodgkinson
David Hodgkinson is a principal of The Hodgkinson Group, Aviation Advisor, with consultants located around the world.
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The climate impacts of aviation are well known. Against a background of significant growth in air travel and aviation markets, and as a result of increasing awareness on the part of governments and the public with regard to climate change and its possible consequences, pressure is being placed on the aviation industry, and airlines in particular, to reduce aviation carbon emissions.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has concluded that, last decade, aviation contributed about 3.5% of the anthropogenic forcing of the climate, such percentage excluding the effect of contrail and aviation-induced cirrus. That effect, according to a report by a UK...
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