https://blogs.dw.com/ice/?p=9008 Ice-Blog Wed, 21 Sep 2016 14:19:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://blogs.dw.com/ice/?p=9008#comment-159 Mon, 26 Apr 2010 09:55:46 +0000 http://blogs.dw.com/ice/?p=9008#comment-159 @ Carol
Thanks for the comment and a very valid point.
A lot of air freight is carried in the hold of passenger aircraft, so it is difficult to get exact figures. But a comparison of air freight with other means of transporting it – rail, road, ship – show that here, too, air freight is the most damaging in terms of CO2 emissions.
The website
http://timeforchange.org/co2-emissions-shipping-goods
uses figures provided by Lufhansa for a comparison. An average cargo B747, it says produces around 500g of CO2 per metric ton of freight and kilometre. This is much higher than
other means of transport. A modern lorry produces 60 to 150g, modern train 20 to 100g, modern ship 10 to 40g.

]]> https://blogs.dw.com/ice/?p=9008#comment-157 Fri, 23 Apr 2010 14:56:57 +0000 http://blogs.dw.com/ice/?p=9008#comment-157 Interesting that nobody mentions air freight, which doesn’t pay any emissions taxes in the UK and probably contributes as much, if not more co2 than passenger jets.

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