Australians must curb overseas flights, drive more slowly to hit net zero by 2050 – The Sydney Morning Herald

The message will be particularly jarring for Australian citizens, who rank among the highest spending overseas flyers per capita, spending $39 billion a year on international tourism in 2019, particularly when the federal government has pledged more than $350 million to help open new gas fields.
Long-haul personal leisure flights of six hours or more are capped at pre-COVID, 2019 levels. An average longhaul flight produces 35 times more emissions than an average regional flight of less than one…

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