International flights to and from China has been badly affected by virus outbreak. A United Nations-backed program designed to rein in emissions from international air travel is at risk of being distorted as governments from the US to Russia impose travel restrictions on China and airlines pare schedules because of plummeting passenger demand.But 2019 and 2020 are the base years for a program known as Corsia or the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation.
“Under the current terms of Corsia, that would increase the need for them to offset when they participate.” About two-thirds of flights at mainland China airports have been cancelled since Feb 3, said David Doherty, an energy analyst with BloombergNEF. China accounted for about 13% of air travel emissions in 2018, according to the International Council on Clean Transportation.
Airline pollution has been growing fast enough in recent years that even with a decline this year, that baseline will still be relatively high, he said. “Flygskam,” or flying shame, was one of the Financial Times’ words of the year in 2019 as environmental activists popularised the concept that the global elite were harming the planet by jetting off to business meetings.
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