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Heather and Lavinia interview Chris about his newsletter entitled, “The flying elephant in the room," which was written in late June 2024 to describe the difficulty of the aviation decarbonisation challenge. Chris draws upon his almost 15 years doing domestic and international aviation environmental policy analysis and regulatory compliance.

In the conversation, the three discuss:

• The global aviation sector’s use of the word “sustainability” to refer primarily to carbon dioxide emissions reductions, and the perverse incentives that result from such “carbon myopia”
• What authentic sustainability might look like for the aviation sector
• The notion of “balancing” the need for sustainable aviation with global equity and climate justice… and the inherently political nature of the human drive to categorize

You can find more from Chris, Heather and Lavinia at Linktree.

Listen to our positionality trailer here.