Aviation Industry - Mitigating Climate Change Impacts through Technology and Policy

The engineering options for mitigating the climate impacts of aviation.

Aviation is a growing contributor to climate change, with unique impacts due to the altitude of emissions. If existing traffic growth rates continue, radical engineering solutions will be required to prevent aviation becoming one of the dominant contributors to climate change. This paper reviews the engineering options for mitigating the climate impacts of aviation using aircraft and airspace t...

Climate Impacts of Aviation

Mitigating Losses from Climate Change through Insurance

Climate change potentially amplifies catastrophe risks by raising the magnitude and frequency of certain extreme events in the long term. Its crucial feature is irreversibility. The availability and affordability of insurance will also be diminished in the presence of climate change. Weather losses can be mitigated by actions of the policyholder; however, the private returns from many mitigatio...

Mitigating Climate Change Through Community-Based Microgrid

GreenHouse Gasses’ (GHG) emission control is the greatest environmental challenge facing the world. The energy sector accounts for the highest percentage of environmental pollution. Emissions from internal combustion power generators are high and these emissions are responsible for the fast depletion of the ozone layer. Though there are other measures put in place to control the emission from p...

Predict and decide Aviation , climate change and UK policy

commissioned Sally Cairns and Carey Newson to undertake a review of the evidence about the significance of aviation to climate change and potential policy measures for mitigating its impacts. This report represents the final output of that work. It builds on an interim paper (also called 'Predict and Decide') produced in December 2005 for the Stern Review 1 , and a subsequent consultation draft...