Canada needs a firm emissions reductions target for the aviation sector: open letter
Air travel forms a small part of Canada's emissions, but it's growing rapidly, prompting calls for firmer climate goals for the industry.
"And here we have government that's going to look at the emissions question privately behind closed doors with industry to come up with a plan that has to be presented in September in an international forum," said Lyn Adamson, co-chair of advocacy group ClimateFast, one of the letter's signatories, referring to the International Civil Aviation Organization .
"It will take some work. I mean, we don't have fast trains between Toronto and Montreal, Toronto and Ottawa at this point, but we need to be going in that direction." "Not just in Canada, but internationally, as the middle class grows, more people fly. And so it's increasingly a worry internationally."of reaching net-zero emissions across its operations by 2050. It also has a short-term target of a 20 per cent emissions reduction below 2019 levels by 2030 for its flights, something that the open letter highlighted as well.
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