Chief Executive Ed Barstian announced the the $1-billion initiative will start in March.
Some airlines fret U.S. travelers will avoid flying to help fight climate change. Carriers are touting their green ways, but environmentalists cry ‘greenwashing.’
Greta Thunberg, a teenage climate activist from Sweden, has led a charge to use other means of transportation, and pioneered the term “,” or flight shame. The movement has been credited with a recent 4% drop in the number of commercial passengers flying in Sweden.Investors also are pushing big banks and investment funds to go green. Some of the largest funds that specialize in environmental, social and corporate governance issues last year. Goldman-Sachs in December became the first prominent U.
It’s up to Delta to deliver, Harteveldt said. “It’s a great press release, but what the world is going to look at and what the world will measure is not the press release, but the actual commitment,” he said. “But it’s good to see an airline, especially a large global airline, make a statement like this and start to take action.”
Advances that would reduce carbon emissions for air travel have proved challenging. Smaller companies have experimented withA two-seat Airbus plane flew across the English Channel in 2015, and Irvine charter jet operator JetSuite expects to add hybrid 12-seat planes to its fleet by 2022. But batteries aren’t a feasible option for large planes yet. Generating the amount of energy needed to power a large aircraft would require batteries that would add significant weight to the aircraft.
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