Clean aviation – Denmark promises ‘green’ planes for 2030

– Denmark promises ‘green’ planes for 2030

The Prime Minister wants domestic flights without fossil fuels within eight years.

Posted today at 6.30 p.m.

Planes stranded on the ground in Copenhagen during the first months of the Covid pandemic. The Danish government wants to ensure that the air recovery is “green”.

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She set the bar very high, Mette Frederiksen. The head of the Danish government, in her new year’s speech, set itself the objective this weekend to “green” aviation on the national territory. And that, in eight short years! In 2030, domestic flights will have to do without fossil fuels. This is one of the measures considered essential in Copenhagen to achieve a reduction of CO₂ emissions by 70% (compared to 1990).

Aerial revolution

The small Scandinavian kingdom is therefore following in the footsteps of neighboring Sweden, which intends to decarbonize its entire economy within the same period. Stockholm is considering imposing a tax on the most polluting planes and banning international flights that do not use clean energy by 2045.