Food-waste, plant sources, flax, marsh grass etc. are going to be widely used as feedstock for biofuel production in a decade claim the aviation experts .These are the efforts taken by some airlines to fight climate change.
The aviation experts are having a big focus on feedstock such as Jatropha, algae etc.which cause least or no destruction to the environment. The concern among many environmentalists previously was that the use of plant derived fuels would greatly destruct the forest. In Northern part of Europe, Camelina is being used as a fuel to run aircrafts.
The airplanes emit roughly 2% of the green house gases and the emissions from the aircraft even from a high altitude remain in the atmosphere, at least the emissions in the ground are absorbed by the soil and the ocean.
By 2012, all the flights entering into and leaving the European airports will be subject to the European trading program as in the airlines will be allowed to emit only certain amount of carbon-dioxide and they will be given targets for buying and selling carbon credits.
The International Air Transport Association strongly believes that by 2020, the fuel efficiency will be increased by 1.5% and by 2050 the carbon emissions from the aircrafts will be nearly reduced to half.
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