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What would Responsible Aviation look like? . FlySmart – a work in progress. Harold Goodwin. Carbon Offsets Air Passenger Duty Medieval pardons Where is the lever for change?. www.flysmart.info Fly less – take the train If you must fly, fly more efficiently Carbon Philanthropy. Fly Smart.
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What would Responsible Aviation look like? FlySmart– a work in progress Harold Goodwin
Carbon Offsets Air Passenger Duty Medieval pardons Where is the lever for change? www.flysmart.info Fly less – take the train If you must fly, fly more efficiently Carbon Philanthropy Fly Smart
The challenge is to drive down carbon pollution from flying – where is the incentive?
57% exited the site in pursuit of cheapest and greenest generally willing to pay a premium – on average 19% 10,000+ March – May 2009
For now the best that can be done is to use available data to help make your flight choice more informed. • The carbon friendly flight finder uses • the published long haul fleets of individual airlines, • EU aircraft fuel consumption data and • UK government fuel to emissions conversion values to assess each plane's overall emissions footprint. • The total plane footprint is then divided by the published manufacturers 2 class seating configuration for long haul and 1 class seating for short haul, to provide an optimised emissions estimate per available seat/per plane value. • All the relevant aircraft in an airline fleet and their seat values are multiplied to create a fleet value, with a separate analysis for short haul and long haul fleets. • The flight is assessed for distance to determine short haul and long haul fleet selection. The total short/long haul fleet value is divided by the number of planes of each type, to give you a weighted average of seat value across a fleet. • The carbon rating of the airline links to both the statistical probability of the plane types you will travel on when flying and aircraft performance.
There are choices. • Do nothing • Work on consumer choice • Taxationwhich could • International Air Passenger Adaptation Levy • IIED – 2011
Take a look at www.cheatneutral.com www.directflights.com www.carbonresponsible.com www.iied.org/pubs/display.php?o=17091IIED http://haroldgoodwin.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2009/6/19/4228081.html