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How Qantas is fighting the rise of ‘flight-shaming’ – The Australian Financial Review
Sometimes referred to in Swedish as “flygskam”, the movement gained momentum across 2018 and 2019 partly thanks to teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg.
The International Council on Clean Transport found all commercial airlines accounted for about 2.4 per cent of all global emissions in 2018. However, that output is expected to rise rapidly to hit 25 per cent by mid-century.
Mr Joyce said the issue of reducing the aviation sectors carbon emissions had to be top of mind.
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