TalkClimateChange

Travel, particularly by air and especially to far away lands is one of the big no-no’s in environmentalism.
Or at least it is when other people are doing it. Despite air-travel being popularly profiled as a climate change evil, online travel agency Expedia says it has seen no decline in the number of people […]

There is a bit of an ongoing tiff right now about the expansion of London’s Heathrow airport with an additional runway. Those of you who have experienced Heathrow will know that the airport in itself is one of the strongest arguments ever for not flying, however, UK aviation continues to grow at a substantial […]

Aviation is usually near the top of the environmental hit list due to its rapid growth, damaging high altitude emissions, and the big impact it makes on personal carbon footprint calculators. But less often discussed is the impressive record of the aviation industry in emissions reduction and the continuing improvements which are likely in the […]

 
Billionaire, entrepreneur, serial adventurer and airline owner Richard Branson is the man behind an innovation which may take the sting out of one of climate change’s biggest sins.
Next month a Virgin Atlantic Boeing 747 will make the world’s first biofuel powered flight between London and Amsterdam. Testing a blend of 80% conventional aviation fuel and […]

2007 was a big year in Climate Change, which saw the US u-turn on climate policy (on the surface at least), the emergence of the EU and the UK as world climate leaders, continued climate record breaking as temperatures soared and the North West passage was opened up, the worldwide release of An Inconvenient Truth, […]

EU ministers are set to agree a deal which will see aircraft emissions continue to rise, and potentially offer a large cash bonus to airlines.
Environmental campaigners will be unsatisfied with a scheme which is likely to do little to reduce emissions, while the rest of us can grumble at funding another EU bureaucratic nightmare which […]

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown was heavily criticised by Green protestors this week after stating his support for an additional runway at London Heathrow airport. But in this case, we think that Gordon Brown “Climate Change (taxation) Action Man” has got it right, and that an additional runway at Heathrow will do more to combat […]