As humanity’s first space colonists are getting ready to ship off to Mars in 2030, the citizens of Earth may have just implemented the first-ever carbon emissions standards for airlines. And they’re weak as hell.
On Monday, the United Nation’s aviation agency took an unprecedented step ofrecommending binding limits on CO2 emissions that will slightly improve the fuel efficiency of future aircraft engines. The rules are the result of over six years of negotiations, and if they pass, they’ll apply to all new aircraft by the end of the 2020s. But they’ll barely trim carbon pollution from most commercial planes.
The rules would compel airlines to reduce their fuel consumption by 4 to 11 percent, with proportionally greater reductions for larger planes. They’ll go into effect first for all new plane designs by 2020 and then for designs currently in production by 2023. By 2029, any aircraft model that isn’t compliant with the new rules would be forced to retire.
(Culled from gizmodo.com)
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