contrails

Transport Secretary restructures Jet Zero Taskforce in a bid to revamp UK efforts to tackle aviation emissions

Report urges aviation industry to enable better collective understanding of contrail impact, even if uncertainty over exact warming effect 'may always be present'

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

Budget carriers urge European Commission to ignore IATA suggestions that contrail reporting should be voluntary and only apply to flights within Europe

IATA calls on sector to undertake pilot projects, collect more data, and improve climate models to mitigate the impact of aircraft contrails

BusinessGreen rounds up the most widely read stories on the site this week

Tests carried out by Google, American Airlines, and Breakthrough Energy suggest pilots can steer clear of routes that create climate-warming contrails