Before Covid, flying caused around 1 billion tonnes of CO2* per year. That means if aviation were a country, it would be one of the largest single emitters, just behind Japan and ahead of countries like Germany and South Korea. *Flights have additional climate impacts. 2/14

Flying regularly is not compatible with a 1.5 degree lifestyle. Just one long-haul flight can emit more CO2 per passenger than what's feasible for staying below 1.5 degrees of global heating. 3/14

If pre-Covid aviation growth rates resume, air traffic alone would contribute a massive 0.1˚C to global heating by 2050, as a study by @milankloewer and colleagues from 2021 has shown. 4/14

The inequality of aviation is staggering! The richest 1% of the world's population is responsible for 50% of aviation emissions. In contrast, around 80% of the world's population has never flown. 5/14

Private jets are the peak of obscene pollution! A flight on a private jet is 5-14(!) times more damaging to the climate than a scheduled flight per passenger. And private jets are extremely unevenly distributed globally. 6/14

Aviation has contributed more to global heating than entire continents! Including all its climate impacts, the share of aviation is 4%, whereas Africa, South America and India have each contributed only 3% to the climate crisis. 7/14

Flying is the most climate-damaging means of transport per hour! Due to speed and long distances, as well as the enormous amounts of energy needed to fly, a flight emits many times more CO2 (and other emissions) than alternative modes of transport. 8/14

What if everyone on earth flew once a year? Our thought experiment shows: that alone would eat up our remaining carbon budget. Frequent flying and a fair distribution of emissions are not compatible. 9/14

Our climate cannot afford billionaires! With their jet-set lives, the richest annually squander many times the lifetime emissions of average people. In addition, extreme wealth creates a problematic and undemocratic concentration of power. 10/14

What would happen if everyone flew like the richest Europeans? If everyone in the world flew like the richest 10% of Europe, aviation alone would cause annual climate pollution equal to 2/3 of the total global emissions in 2019! 11/14

Can we believe the aviation industry's climate promises? Evidence shows: No. Aviation lobbies like @IATA and airlines regularly set new climate targets - and just as reliably miss them. A new report by @possible proves this once again: 12/14

All graphics 🔼🔼🔼 are from our new guide #CommonDestination . There you will find even more facts and narratives to #ReframeAviation . You can find it here as an online version and PDF (also in German): 13/14

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@StayGroundedNet @GretaThunberg @R_Degrowth @ExtinctionR @EnvJustice @_wearepossible @reclaimthepower @ClimateHuman @KevinClimate @CarolineLucas @CaroRackete Thanks for posting; hopefully biofuels and such will someday- probably in the distant future- make flying a more responsible means of least France is prohibiting shorter flights now.

@StayGroundedNet @GretaThunberg @R_Degrowth @ExtinctionR @EnvJustice @_wearepossible @reclaimthepower @ClimateHuman @KevinClimate @CarolineLucas @CaroRackete This is really important - thank you for sharing, biofuel from #palmoil agrofuel is destroying the earth

@StayGroundedNet @GretaThunberg @R_Degrowth @ExtinctionR @EnvJustice @_wearepossible @reclaimthepower @ClimateHuman @KevinClimate @CarolineLucas @CaroRackete I calculated the per capita CO2e of the 20% of world population in the "Aviation Continent". If you have ever flown at all, you belong to the 20%. And your virtual emission from flying alone is 2.3t/yr. But 78mio of our fellow "citizens" spew out 23t/yr.