Aviation: Exhaust Emissions

(asked on 7th May 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of instructing UK airlines to adopt turbulence-dodging technology to reduce emissions.


Answered by
Jesse Norman Portrait
Jesse Norman
This question was answered on 15th May 2019

The Department has not made an assessment of the merits of instructing UK airlines to adopt turbulence-dodging technology to reduce emissions.

As part of the development of the Aviation 2050 green paper, the Department commissioned research to understand what technological and operational measures could be available to reduce emissions from aviation by 2050.

Both the green paper and an accompanying paper on reducing aviation emissions were published on 17 December 2018 and may be found here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/aviation-2050-the-future-of-uk-aviation

The Government is committed to tackling aviation emissions. Our final Aviation 2050 strategy, which will be published later this year, will set out a clear approach to ensure that the sector plays its part in taking action against climate change.

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