Toulouse. The Dilemmas of the Aviation Summit
The aviation summit which takes place on February 3 and 4 in Toulouse aims for carbon neutrality by 2050. Associations, such as Greenpeace, are instead calling for air traffic regulation.
The Ministers of Transport of the member countries of the European Union and representatives of some partner States, such as the United States and Canada, are in the Pink City. They take part in the aviation summit in Toulouse on February 3 and 4. It should lead to the signing of the “Toulouse declaration” in favor of carbon neutrality by 2050.
“To sustainably decarbonize air transport, several areas are being explored”, according to the Ministry of Ecological Transition on his website. He gives as an example: “Technological innovation (design, motorization, use of electric, hybrid or hydrogen), improvement of operations (trajectories, formation flight), optimization of infrastructures airports, or the distributor of sustainable aviation fuels.
The aviation summit meeting is organized on the occasion of the French presidency of the Council of the European Union. The visit of an assembly line of the European aircraft manufacturer Airbus was organized on Thursday afternoon. This Friday, February 4, participants will go to the National School of Civil Aviation (ENAC) to discuss the future of sustainable aviation. A study on “citizens’ expectations” on the decarbonization of the sector must in particular be presented.
Aviation summit in Toulouse: a divergence on the means
Meanwhile, about ten kilometers away, environmental associations calling for a demonstration in front of Toulouse-Blagnac airport “If this meeting should be an opportunity to move forward on the necessary transformation of the sector on a European scale , it risks turning around false solutions and in particular the French government’s obsession with the myth of the green plane”, regrets Greenpeace in a press release.
The NGO believes that “regulation of air traffic is essential to put the sector on track for the Paris agreement”. This postulate should be the starting point for discussions at the aviation summit. This could evoke concrete and effective solutions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions now. And the organization cites as an example the prohibition of short flights when there is an alternative by train of less than six hours, the revival of rail or the abandonment of all airport extension projects.
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