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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Gwyn Topham Transport correspondent, in Rio de Janeiro

Airline industry chiefs say 2050 net zero goal now unlikely

A large four-engine aircraft flies across a blue sky, leaving four white contrails behind it
More than half of the decarbonisation plan for aviation depended on the development of sustainable aviation fuel. Photograph: Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto/REX/Shutterstock

The aviation industry’s landmark pledges to be net zero by 2050 will probably not now be achieved, airline leaders have admitted.

The collective goal to eliminate net carbon emissions was declared by global airlines only five years ago in 2021, with similar pledges made by national aviation industry leaders and governments, including in the UK, in 2020.

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