Monday, February 24

Finance

Aviation has always moved forward on the wings of dreamers. From the Wright Brothers to the visionaries who built the Boeing 747, queen of the skies for 50 years, dreamers have pushed past doubters to build an industry that flew more than 4.5 billion people in 2019. But with aviation accounting for 3% of greenhouse gas emissions being poured into our atmosphere, can tech dreamers and problem-solvers address its impact on climate change?

This week Greta Thunberg joined the protests in Norway against wind farms that power 100,000 Norwegian households but operate on land used by Indigenous SĂĄmi reindeer herders. The community asserts that the flickering of the turbine blades and the noise they create cause distress to reindeer. Importantly, in 2021 Norway’s Supreme Court ruled that these farms violated SĂĄmi rights under international conventions. Greta noted: “Indigenous rights, human rights, must go hand-in-hand with climate protection and climate action. That can’t happen at the expense of some people. Then it is not climate justice in Norway.”

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