One possibility to reduce the climate impact of aviation is the avoidance of climate-sensitive regions, which is synonymous with climate-optimised flight planning. Those regions can be identified by algorithmic functions for nitrogen oxides (NOx), water vapour (H2O) as well as contrail cirrus, which provide a measure of climate effects associated […]
The mitigation of aviation’s climate impact is a subject that enjoys increasing attention. The awareness about not only the CO2- but also the non-CO2 impact of aviation increases. Oftentimes, technological improvements are considered in the system change towards greener aviation. Nevertheless, these improvements require innovative research and are […]
ClimOP recently hosted a workshop to demonstrate how to build more energy-efficient European airports. Over the past few months, the European project aiming to contribute to greener aviation has assessed the impact three operational improvements have on aviation stakeholders and the climate. The ClimOP Consortium considered three measures to reduce […]
Climate change is an urgent topic in all agendas around the world as its consequences become more and more evident to everyone’s eyes. Raising temperatures, longer frost-free seasons and changes in precipitation patterns are the symptoms of an illness the world is facing due to greenhouses gases produced by […]
One of our research interests within ClimOp is to investigate the potential of combining strategic network planning and climate optimized trajectories in mitigating aviation’s climate impact from both CO2 and non-CO2 effects.
Strategic network planning is based on multiple decisions according to allocating fleet to routes that eventually form the entire […]
Last week, the ClimOP partners Deep Blue and Amigo held a training course on Climate Services to help the Italian Critical Infrastructure adapt and become more resilient to climate emergencies. According to the US Government, critical infrastructures are those organizations “whose assets, systems, and […]
Airports are well-known high energy consumers. As a consequence, each year, the top five European airports emit together more CO2 than the whole of Sweden. But, if we see the glass as half full, airports are also great potential energy savers. The good news is that Europe’s leading airports have […]
Yesterday, the ClimOP Consortium gathered in the amazing city of Rome for the first time after a long time of online meetings. The encounter aimed to discuss and align all the analyses made by the partners on the different operational improvements. All partners presented how they assessed the […]
Aviation climate effects of non-CO2 emissions depend on location and time of emission. In order to mitigate aviation’s climate effect, the mitigation strategy of climate-optimized trajectories aims to avoid flying through those regions of the atmosphere which are particularly sensitive to aviation emissions (e.g. regions where persistent contrails […]
What if we tell passengers that we might have found the solutions which will allow them to partially reduce the aviation greenhouse gases emissions, but that these new measures might have an impact also on their flight experience? Would they tolerate them […]