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3 fixes airlines need to go green in 2021

by Tara Yarlagadda
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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.

According to Carbon Monitor, aviation emissions dropped by almost half 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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