Are green flights clear for takeoff?

What are the impacts of new flying technologies? Are policymakers and the aviation industry taking the right steps to avoid global warming exceeding 1.5 degrees?

Alasdair speaks to Dr Daniel Quiggin, senior research fellow at the Chatham House Environment and Society Centre. Dr Quiggin is an expert in the analysis of how national and global energy systems will evolve to 2050 and author of recent research on Net zero and the role of the aviation industry.

Further reading:

• Net zero and the role of the aviation industry, Chatham House, November 2023
• 'First net zero flight takes off but decarbonisation remains on runway', November 2023

Link to the Chatham House webinar on the research:
3pm GMT on Wednesday 31st January 2024

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