Emissions From Air Transport to a New Maximum

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In the first half of 2025, aviation's greenhouse gas emissions reached a new peak of 1.5 million tonnes in Austria. The VCÖ therefore calls for an EU-wide kerosene tax as well as investments in cross-border rail connections in order to create fair conditions of competition in transport. AUSTRIA. Air traffic in Austria reached a new maximum level of climate-damaging emissions in the first half of 2025. According to the mobility organization VCÖ, …

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Air traffic's climate-damaging emissions reached a new peak in the first half of 2025. Based on the fuelled kerosene in Austria, air traffic generated around 1.5 million tonnes of greenhouse gases, as an analysis of the Austrian Transport Club (VCÖ) showed on Friday. This is 120,000 tonnes more than in the same period in 2024 and around 40,000 tonnes more than in the previous half-year peak in 2019, according to a report.