Trade-offs in aviation impacts on climate favour non-CO2 mitigation

2025/07/02 by Michael J. Prather, Andrew Gettelman, Joyce E. Penner · 1 voice · 2 citations
Engineering · Environmental Science · #Advanced Aircraft Design and Technologies #Air Traffic Management and Optimization #Vehicle emissions and performance

paper · doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09198-2

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• Surprisingly, when accounting for uncertainties in aviation's climate change effects, reducing contrails or nitrogen oxide emissions is more effective than reducing CO2 emissions (though tackling the [bsky, 3 points, 1 comments]