Travel Health & Environment Watch.Jun 18, 2007 British Airline Pilots Challenge Environment Myths. A petition from the British Airline Pilots' Association (BALPA BALPA n abbr (= British Airline Pilots' Association) → sindicato de pilotos de líneas aéreas BALPA n abbr (= British Airline Pilots' Association) → syndicat des pilotes de ligne ), which has 85% of Britain's 10,000 airline pilots, will be present to the UK Government, detailing research which "challenges the myth that air transport is the major cause of growing carbon dioxide carbon dioxide, chemical compound, CO2, a colorless, odorless, tasteless gas that is about one and one-half times as dense as air under ordinary conditions of temperature and pressure. emissions." The report - 'Aviation and the Environment' examines the true impact of aviation and "deals with the half truths and untruths" told by those who attack air travel and make passengers feel guilty about taking a flight. BALPA points out that road transport carbon dioxide emissions in the UK in the 15-year period 1990 to 2005 increased by 11m tons - from 109m to 120m tons of carbon. That increase alone - just the increase - is more than the total carbon dioxide emissions from aircraft in the UK today (10m tons) says the pilots' union. Jun 17, 2007 Green sky thinking - carbon credits and the propfan comeback? Will spiralling fuel costs and the prospect of carbon credits signal the return of the propfan, engine makers are dusting off some old concepts last seen in the early nineties, Hailed for its fuel-saving potential when it was developed 19 years ago, the concept never quite got off the ground originally. Jun 12, 2007 Europe to back aviation inclusion in ETS ETS Educational Testing Service (nonprofit private educational testing and measurement organization) ETS Emergency Telecommunications Service ETS Electronic Trading System ETS Engineering (&) Technical Services European Union European Union (EU), name given since the ratification (Nov., 1993) of the Treaty of European Union, or Maastricht Treaty, to the European Community transport ministers have given their backing to expanding Europe's emissions trading Emissions trading (or cap and trade) is an administrative approach used to control pollution by providing economic incentives for achieving reductions in the emissions of pollutants. system to include aviation. Jun 11, 2007 ZZ Editorial eMail: edit@AirGuideOnline.com For Air Transport & Travel Business Experts contact our Director of Content Aram Gesar eMail: bizintel@AirGuideOnline.com For more global news, reviews, features and analysis, please subscribe to Verb 1. subscribe to - receive or obtain regularly; "We take the Times every day" subscribe, take buy, purchase - obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction; "The family purchased a new car"; "The conglomerate acquired a new company"; our Newsletters: http://www.airguideonline.com/order_formsubs.htm#news To Advertise: advert@AirGuideOnline.com AirGuideFlightTracker is a new service that keeps travelers informed on flight and airport status via the Web. For more go to http://www.airguideonline.com/airline_tracker.htm Copyright [c] 2007 Air Travel Media / Pyramid pyramid, structure pyramid. The true pyramid exists only in Egypt, though the term has also been applied to similar structures in other countries. Egyptian pyramids are square in plan and their triangular sides, which directly face the points of the Media Group. All rights reserved. |
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