At first, Covid-19 put air travel across much of the world on hold. As a result, air traffic — and the greenhouse gases air traffic emits — plummeted in 2020.
In fact, the drop in air traffic accounted for 10 percent of all emissions reductions during the early months of the pandemic, according to one report.
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