Explore alternatives to blanket ban on aviation

[mrchrisadams]

Aviation is astonishingly energy intensive and damaging in environmental terms, and in many cases the single biggest source of emissions for high-tech/service companies, especially if they don't run their own infrastructure.

There are schemes and mechanisms to a blanket ban, where work takes people where there isn't decent infrastructure, or where the time cost makes surface travel prohibitive.

Examples:

The OECD's own reporting shows that 80% of their emissions as an org come from flying, and for consultancies like Accenture it was also a large chunk of their emissions in 2018, for example.

What to do

If a blanket ban often won't work, and offsetting isn't enough, it's worth looking at policies or ideas outside of tech/IT.

One example is the Frequent Flyer Levy, and you can see an example of how it might affect the incentives for flying with this calculator. Microsoft also have a price on carbon with an internal carbon fee.

What else is out there that people use, limit demand for flying, without an outright ban?

This is more about making fast, long distance travel possible, but reflecting the true impact, when flying is the only realistic option, rather than just suggesting alternatives like travel days the way 1010 describe in their travel perks.

Suggestions and links to existing schemes welcome.