AVIATION IS THE KEY TO REDUCING CLIMATE EMISSIONS
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1 Page 1 sur 6 AVIATION IS THE KEY TO REDUCING CLIMATE EMISSIONS Strong leadership by an industry that understands risk well could provide the nudge we all need to get on board. Illustration MHJ/iStockphoto.com WRITER Robert Partner at Kepos Capital, LP January 27, 2015 In his State of the Union speech last week, President Obama spoke movingly about addressing climate change. But frankly, the United States government has not yet moved the needle. In fact, the world today is fiddling while future humans are being made subject to worst-case scenarios we have not even thought about. Although we may not admit it publicly, or even to ourselves, every sane person understands that as a society we are performing an uncontrolled experiment on our planet. How big of a shock we subject it to matters tremendously to those who will be alive in the future and who will suffer the unknown consequences of our collective actions. SHARE REPUBLISH What society is currently doing to the planet with respect to greenhouse gases is very much like the actions that led to the devastating and deadly Johnstown flood of 1889: dangerously filling up a reservoir with unknown capacity and unknown consequences, with concern for society s well-being overshadowed by human greed and irresponsible behavior. The
2 Page 2 sur 6 lesson is this: It doesn t matter if you don t foresee the consequences of your behavior. It doesn t matter that you didn t anticipate exactly when or where or how your actions would lead to catastrophic consequences. Certain actions, such as filling up a reservoir, are inherently dangerous, and anyone who engages in such behavior is strictly liable for the consequences of their actions. As a risk manager, I was taught to worry about worst-case scenarios even while recognizing that I was not likely to see them coming. As an The purpose of risk management is not to eliminate risk, but rather to make sure that risks are priced appropriately. investor and a former partner heading risk management at Goldman Sachs, I clearly understand that the purpose of risk management is not to eliminate risk, but rather to make sure that risks are priced appropriately. As an economist, I understand that incentives are the most powerful force that society can provide to influence behavior. And yet little is being done today to price climate risk and create appropriate incentives to reduce emissions. It is our duty to manage the risks to future generations of carbon emissions now. And the way I propose we can best do this is to price the risk in a way that creates appropriate incentives to reduce them first in aviation and then throughout the global economy. Aviation understands that there is uncertainty about how much capacity Earth s atmosphere has left to safely absorb emissions tremendous uncertainty that creates tremendous risk. Why start in aviation? The aviation industry very well understands that Earth s atmosphere is a reservoir that has a limited capacity to safely absorb emissions. Aviation also knows that there are no alternative technologies on the horizon that will allow people to fly without creating emissions. So for many decades into the future, the aviation industry will need a growing share of the remaining capacity to emit carbon dioxide, giving it a stronger interest than most sectors in quickly reducing emissions and reserving as much capacity as possible for the future. Aviation, with its hard-won expertise in risk management, understands that there is uncertainty about how much capacity Earth s atmosphere has left to safely absorb
3 Page 3 sur 6 emissions tremendous uncertainty that creates tremendous risk. The good news is aviation has a head start: The International Civil Aviation Organization is already designing the world s first internationally harmonized market-based-measure to reduce emissions. This creates an important opportunity for aviation to lead the global effort to reduce the risk of climate change by immediately creating an appropriate benchmark for the incentives needed to reduce emissions throughout the global economy. For a number of years (2012, 2013, 2014) World Wildlife Fund, on whose board I sit, has partnered with top economists, including several Nobel Prize winners, in calling for carbon pricing that It is critical that the incentive to reduce CO 2emissions be the same everywhere on the planet in all economic activities. reflects the externality of the risk created by international aviation emissions. The movement in support of this idea is growing. In the coming year, we will work together with the California Public Employees Retirement System to engage the global investment community, along with the aviation industry, civil society and governments, to intentionally incorporate the appropriate incentive to reduce emissions in the market-basedmeasure being designed by ICAO. We will invite all owners of aviation shares to join in this effort. It is critical that the incentive to reduce CO emissions be the same everywhere on the planet in all economic activities, and be at the level that reflects the economic externality of the risk those emissions create. In 2013 the U.S. governmentestimated that externality to be around $40 per ton, based on the best economic models. But more recently the scientists who wrote the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change synthesis report, released late last year, argued persuasively that the economic models behind that estimate are not to be trusted, particularly with respect to their treatment of worst-case scenarios. Therefore the appropriate incentive is even higher. The creation of a benchmark price in aviation, based on the best advice of science and economics working together, is essential and would be a clear signal that will allow incentives to be created quickly and at the appropriate level throughout the global economy. 2 Risk management is always an urgent priority. All risks should be priced appropriately, immediately. And in no instance is this
4 Page 4 sur 6 more critical than for climate risk, which is an existential threat to the planet. For aviation, now is the time to lead the way by creating appropriate incentives to reduce that risk. And for governments, corporate executives, investors and all of the rest of us, now is the time to follow because it is the right thing to do to protect the well-being of future generations. Add Your Comments Philip Cafaro Jan. 30th, 2015 The key issue around aviation and climate change is not so much getting the price right for aviation fuel or the cost of flying; the key issue is ending the growth in total flights, which has averaged between 5% and 6% annually over the past 4 decades. As I discuss in my recent article "Reducing consumption to avert catastrophic global climate change: the case of aviation," aviation emissions are the fastest growing major source of carbon emissions worldwide. Efficiency improvements have only risen 1% to 1.5% annually during this same time period, and have little chance of increasing more quickly in the future. Hence curbing the total number of flights must be part of the solution. Carbon taxes could be part of this effort, but so could outright limits on the number of flights individuals or businesses are allowed to make. Walt Palmer Feb. 3rd, 2015 Aviation is the key industry in really advancing the project of reducing total, global emissions in a sustainable way. But the simplistic focus on market-based measures ignores the obvious: ultimately, in a world where emissions have to drop relentlessly, for decades, to levels approaching a global zero, emissions credits must become rare and expensive. In the end--if we do things right--there will be no emissions credits available. It is absolutely wrong to say that aviation does not have any prospect of sourcing low-carbon, sustainable fuel. It has every such prospect. And the world's chance is to support aviation in showing how carbon can be beat, rather than bought. Success is not only feasible; it is not merely immanent; it is starting to happen. Aviation will be the case study that shows every sector how to succeed.
5 Page 5 sur 6 Read the book (just released): 'Will Sustainability Fly? : Aviation's Fuel Options in a Low-Carbon World' See summary and reviews at: bit.ly/1vpme1p Market-based measures have a huge role to play. But it's a very particular role for a particular time. Pingback, Feb. 4th, 2015 SEF News-Views Digest No. 81 (2-4-15) Citizens for Sustainability Pingback, Feb. 5th, 2015 Aviation is the key to reducing climate emissions Walt Palmer Feb. 5th, 2015 To Philip's point (somehow I did not see his comment till after mine was posted): The knee jerk reaction to aviation GHG emissions is that we have to cut the amount of air travel. The important point here is that, regardless of whether we think that is right or wrong, it is not--in any foreseeable way--possible. The demand for flying is now focused outside of the developed economies. Flying, since the 30s, has been part of 'developed world' activity. In fact, the mobility for people and goods that it affords is a key part of what it means to have development capacity. Unless the developed world (1) decides that rapidly developing countries like China and India can't have development--along with those countries whose human and economic development is only incipient--and, further, (2) figures out how to enforce such a self-serving view, there is no conceivable way that growth in the total amount of global flying will be arrested within the next several decades. Flying could be capped or even reduced in North America, Europe, Japan, Korea, and Oceania and it would hardly affect the approximate 5% compounding growth in flying. Market-based measures (MBM) will be a valuable tool in creating a recognition of the value of carbon reduction tools. But it is the tools themselves that solve the problem, ultimately. Unless flying, and all of us who do it, accept the role of being the one left standing when the carbon economy music stops, the answer lies in figuring out the things that disconnect energy
6 Page 6 sur 6 from carbon in real terms. bit.ly/1vpme1p Philip Cafaro Feb. 5th, 2015 I don't agree that "the knee jerk reaction" to aviation GCG emissions is that we have to cut air travel. On the contrary, the default response--whether among scholars, politicians, or the general public--is that we need to find efficiency improvements that will allow us to keep flying as much as we want without pushing global carbon emissions too high. Exhibits A and B are the treatments of aviation emissions in the last two IPCC Assessment Reports. Lots of discussion of potential efficiency improvements, no serious discussion of limiting overall air travel or freight traffic. Unfortunately for this rosy approach to the problem, the experts seem to agree that no feasible efficiency improvements (whether in fuels, airplane construction, flight patterns, etc.) are likely to push annual efficiency gains much above current levels of 1 to 1.5%. At least that seemed to be the consensus when I reviewed the literature 2 years ago for my paper. Walt writes that cutting the amount of air traffic is not possible, and implies that even cutting its rate of growth is not possible. But if that is true, then the obvious conclusion is that it not possible to limit GHG emissions from aviation.
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