In Tokyo and Dubai, residents are exposed to 2.78m cars’ worth of emissions from air traffic. These three cities are the world’s worst affected by air pollution from aviation, according to new research tracking the air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions of cargo and passenger flights from airports around the world. “Pollution around airports is growing year on year,” said Jo Dardenne, the aviation director at Transport & Environment, the thinktank which helped produce the research. From there the picture is more complicated, with airports’ climate impacts and emissions of other harmful pollutants not clearly linked. Critics of air travel have said there were insufficient safeguards around the kinds of pollution caused by airports.

Source: The Guardian February 28, 2024 02:25 UTC