Say a full-sized, London-based symphony orchestra wants to play a concert in Berlin. It needs more or less an entire airplane, an Airbus A320 or a Boeing B737, to do so. “Curbing emissions from aviation is a non-trivial piece of the puzzle in reducing the risks of climate change,” according to Yale Climate Connections, a news service focusing on the environment. Besides carbon dioxide, aviation releases additional, harmful chemicals into the atmosphere with every flight.


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