Nature Communications (Jun 2021)

Evaluating the climate impact of aviation emission scenarios towards the Paris agreement including COVID-19 effects

  • Volker Grewe,
  • Arvind Gangoli Rao,
  • Tomas Grönstedt,
  • Carlos Xisto,
  • Florian Linke,
  • Joris Melkert,
  • Jan Middel,
  • Barbara Ohlenforst,
  • Simon Blakey,
  • Simon Christie,
  • Sigrun Matthes,
  • Katrin Dahlmann

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24091-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Aviation contributes to climate change and ways to reduce its emissions are widely debated. Here, the authors assess the effects of technology improvements and the use of sustainable aviation fuels and find that even when these are considered aviation is unlikely to meet emissions goals in line with the Paris Agreement.