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Introducing Carbon Temperature

A new metric for tracking airline decarbonization

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This new metric combines the methods of measuring the changes in an airline's absolute emissions and carbon intensity.

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Having one metric, scaled for easy interpretation, makes for a handy way to track each airline's progress toward decarbonization.

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A slide titled "Fair warning - airline rankings are very different when using this new KPI. Shows a table of 10 US-based airlines and their data points and rankings using four CO2-related metrics.
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The Best and Worst Travel CO2 Metrics

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A provocative case for adopting a new KPI for aligning climate-related travel decisions. Includes analyses of US airline CO2 data from 2016 through 2021, courtesy of Flight BI.

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