Heathrow Airport expansion risks for the Climate Change Act - Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
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This report examines whether a third runway at Heathrow Airport is compatible with the UK’s domestic and international legal climate change obligations, and shows how growing airport capacity before climate technologies succeed will break the UK's carbon budget.
  • Kind_to_Everyone@slrpnk.net
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    3 days ago

    I am conflicted on this issue. Commercial aircraft are the public transit of global movement. They should be the last curtailed.

    Instead, shut down private jet airports like Biggen Hill for the real climate criminals, increase taxes dramatically on first and business class seats to pay for carbon offsets, and raise SAF share requirements.

    Heathrow is already too close to London. Rebuild the north runway at Gatwick as planned and restore HS2 instead to cut domestic flights usage.