Calculating the Carbon Footprint from Different Classes of Air Travel
This paper develops a new methodology for calculating the "carbon footprint" of air travel whereby emissions from travel in premium (business and first) classes depend heavily on the average class-specific occupied floor space. Unlike met...
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| Format: | Policy Research Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2013
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/05/17784322/calculating-carbon-footprint-different-classes-air-travel http://hdl.handle.net/10986/15602 |
| Summary: | This paper develops a new methodology
for calculating the "carbon footprint" of air
travel whereby emissions from travel in premium (business
and first) classes depend heavily on the average
class-specific occupied floor space. Unlike methods
currently used for the purpose, the approach properly
accounts for the fact that the relative number of passenger
seats in economy and premium classes is endogenous in the
longer term, so adding one additional premium trip crowds
out more than one economy trip on any particular flight. It
also shows how these differences in carbon attributable to
different classes of travel in a carbon footprint
calculation correspond to how carbon surcharges on different
classes of travel would differ if carbon emissions from
international aviation were taxed given a competitive
aviation sector globally. The paper shows how this approach
affects carbon footprint calculations by applying it to
World Bank staff travel for calendar year 2009. |
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