That is because the rich are willing to pay any price rather than alter their travel habits. This is what the data of Researchers from Oxford University is indicating. Instead targeted measures, such as awareness campaigns or Personal carbon credits are more likely to influence the high spenders.
Professor John Preston is quoted to have said:
The transport sector contributes 26% of UK carbon emissions and is the only major sector in which emissions are predicted to rise until 2020
How do Aircraft Emissions Effect the Environment?
• They have the “positive radiative forcing”, which refers to evidence that CO2 emissions from aircraft at high altitudes are more potent that CO2 released at ground level.
• Directly these emissions add carbon dioxide (CO2), nitrogen oxides (NOx = NO + NO2), water vapour, unburnt hydrocarbons, soot, and sulfate particles into the atmosphere. Ozone, CO2, and water vapour are greenhouse gases and their increase has a warming effect.
Those with economic interests in the aviation industry often fail to realize the larger price the environment is forced to pay because of air pollution by emissions.
Via: BBC
