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Australians must curb overseas flights, drive more slowly to hit net zero by 2050 – The Sydney Morning Herald
Personal choices that reduce carbon emissions such as limiting air travel and catching public transport are crucial to limit damage from global warming, the IEA…
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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