This strategy contains one very large low-hanging fruit. “1% of the global population is responsible for 50% of emissions from flying, and a big share of this, about 30% in Europe, comes from corporate flyers,” writes Murphy.
“The global market for carbon offsets is expected to grow up to 50 times by mid-century, driven in part by the implementation of the UN-based Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation ,” writes Ryan Katz-Rosene, associate professor in environmental political economy at the University of Ottawa. Meanwhile, a recent post in Policy Options counters the notion that carbon offsets should be part of aviation’s climate toolkit.