Study: Excluding long-haul flights from EU emissions scheme would ignore 67 per cent of contrails' climate impacts

Stuart Stone
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Just five of the 100 most contrail intensive routes to, from, and within the EEA would be covered by proposed monitoring scheme, green transport group warns

A new European Commission framework that intends to initially exclude long-haul flights from aviation emissions monitoring requirements would see 67 per cent of aviation's contrail-related climate impact...

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