{"id":5829,"date":"2019-09-24T00:21:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T00:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/?p=5829"},"modified":"2019-09-24T00:21:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T00:21:00","slug":"committee-on-climate-change-growth-needs-to-almost-halve-if-aviation-is-to-meet-its-climate-targets-by-2050%ef%bb%bf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/?p=5829","title":{"rendered":"Committee on Climate Change: growth needs to almost halve if aviation is to meet its climate targets by 2050\ufeff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>strictly\nembargoed until 00.01 24\/9\/19<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Committee on Climate Change(CCC), the Government\u2019s official\nadvisers, has said in a report out today that growth at UK airports needs to be almost half\nthe predicted levels if aviation is to meet the government\u2019s target of aviation\nbeing net-zero carbon by 2050.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The CCC, chaired by former Conservation minister Lord Deben, said, \u201cIn the absence of a true zero-carbon\nplane, demand cannot continue to grow unfettered over the long-term. Our\nscenario reflects a 25% growth in demand by 2050 compared to 2018 levels. This\ncompares to current Government projections which are for up to a 49% increase in\ndemand over the same period.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It says that, if the growth currently planned for London\u2019s airports went\nahead, that would leave \u2018at most very limited room for growth at non-London\nairports\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The report explained, \u201cThe Government should assess its\nairport capacity strategy in the context of net zero. Specifically, investments\nwill need to be demonstrated to make economic sense in a net-zero world and the\ntransition towards it. Current planned additional airport capacity in London, including the\nthird runway at Heathrow, is likely to leave at most very limited room for\ngrowth at non-London airports\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The CCC comes up with a number of suggestions for managing\ndemand: \u201cMeasures should be put in place to limit growth in demand to at most\n25% above current levels by 2050. These could include carbon pricing, a\nfrequent flyer levy, fiscal measures to ensure aviation is no under-taxed\ncompared to other transport sectors (e.g. fuel duty, VAT), reforms to Air\nPassenger Duty, or management of airport capacity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John Stewart, chair of HACAN, the campaign group which gives\na voice to residents under the Heathrow flight paths, said, \u201cThe big message of\nthe report is that unfettered demand cannot continue.&nbsp; The Committee on Climate Change is\nchallenging the Government to find ways of managing demand.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ENDS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Notes for Editors:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>(1).<\/strong> Report  <br><a href=\"http:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Letter-to-Prime-Minister.pdf\">http:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Letter-to-Prime-Minister.pdf\u00a0<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>For more information:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John Stewart on 07957385650<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>strictly embargoed until 00.01 24\/9\/19 The Committee on Climate Change(CCC), the Government\u2019s official advisers, has said in a report out today that growth at UK airports needs to be almost half the predicted levels if aviation is to meet the government\u2019s target of aviation being net-zero carbon by 2050. The CCC, chaired by former Conservation &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/?p=5829\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Committee on Climate Change: growth needs to almost halve if aviation is to meet its climate targets by 2050\ufeff&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5829"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5829"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5831,"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5829\/revisions\/5831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}