The use of jet fuel by commercial aviation is a major contributor to carbon dioxide emissions. AFP
The determinants of health include genetic, behavioural and social factors; adequate supplies of clean air, water, food and hygienic sanitation; and exposure to microorganisms, toxins and environmental hazards.
Population growth was slow and life expectancy was low until about two centuries ago.
Changes to these two areas were possible in part because of the use of energy from fossil fuels.
It is increasingly being recognised that the combustion of fossil fuels has led to global warming, which is posing unprecedented threats to human health with its impacts on water and food security, floods, droughts, violent storms, heat waves, rising sea levels and infectious diseases.
Governors Wind Energy Coalition
The City Where Cars Are Not Welcome Source: By Jack Ewing, New York Times • Posted: Monday, March 1, 2021
As automakers promise to get rid of internal combustion engines, Heidelberg is trying to get rid of autos.
The Bahnstadt, a newly developed district in Heidelberg, Germany, aims to be as free of carbon emissions as possible.Felix Schmitt for The New York Times
HEIDELBERG, Germany Eckart Würzner, a mayor on a mission to make his city emission free, is not terribly impressed by promises from General Motors, Ford and other big automakers to swear off fossil fuels.
Stellantis plant in Windsor, Ontario
For over a century, Ontario has been a powerhouse in Canadian auto manufacturing. With an industry on the cusp on unprecedented change, is Canada positioned to continue to be a dominant force? Will we be able to ride the changing face of mobility to a new golden era of Canadian auto production?
In 2017, the Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid started rolling off the lines of FCA’s plant in Windsor, Ontario. The highly anticipated sibling to the gasoline-powered Pacifica, the hybrid announced the company’s Ontario foray into an electrified future. The birthplace of minivans as we know them since 1983, when we all finally learned what a “minivan” was, they’ve pumped out more than 15 million of them was going high-tech.
by David Shepardson and Tracy Rucinski (Reuters) The CEOs of American Airlines, United Airlines and Delta Air Lines and other airline officials met virtually with White House officials Friday to discuss tackling aviation pollution and urge U.S. support for greener aviation fuel.
United Chief Executive Scott Kirby made clear the carrier was fully committed to confronting the climate crisis and sought White House support for “incentives for sustainable aviation fuel and carbon capture in the forthcoming economic stimulus proposal,” the airline said in a statement.
White House National Climate Advisor Gina McCarthy, economic adviser Brian Deese and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg took part in the meeting, including discussion of using biofuels to power air travel and reduce carbon emissions. Reuters first reported the planned meeting.
Chief executives of the nation’s largest airlines met with Biden administration officials Friday to talk about reducing emissions and push incentives for lower-carbon aviation fuels.