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British airport expansion and the climate catastrophe
Ian Sinclair interviews Dr DECLAN FINNEY and Dr GIULIO MATTIOLI about capping short haul flights, downsizing airports and taxing kerosene
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THE debate about airport expansion in Britain and the climate crisis has been dominated by Heathrow airport.
In a recent article for Carbon Brief, Dr Declan Finney, a post-doctoral researcher in the Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science at the University of Leeds, and Dr Giulio Mattioli, a research associate at the Department of Transport Planning at TU-Dortmund in Germany and guest research fellow in the Sustainability Research Institute at the University of Leeds, broadened the debate by discussing their research on airport expansion across Britain.
Ian Sinclair (IS): What did your research discover about expansion plans for British airports and whether these are compatible with the “net-zero carbon emissions by 2050” pathway set out by the committee on climate change and accepted by the government?
Declan Finney and Giulio Mattioli (DF/GM): Some British airports already have capacity to serve many more passengers than currently, and have indicated intentions to drive demand for this capacity.
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