By Elissa Garay, CNN<\/p>\n
(CNN) \u2014\u00a0<\/b>Most sustainability experts will scoff at the idea of \u201csustainable\u201d and \u201cairlines\u201d in the same sentence.<\/p>\n \u201cToday, at this moment, it\u2019s not yet realistic to fly fully sustainably,\u201d says Pedro Piris-Cabezas, a global transportation expert and economist at the nonprofit Environmental Defense Fund.<\/p>\n Yet that doesn\u2019t mean the airline industry isn\u2019t showing growing self-awareness around its environmental impacts and the increasingly urgent calls for transformation in the face of an intensifying climate crisis.<\/p>\n \u201cIn the past few years, public awareness of aviation\u2019s climate impact has definitely put pressure on airlines to strengthen their sustainability strategy,\u201d says Sola Zheng, an aviation researcher at the nonprofit International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT). She says that combined pressure from consumers and investors, along with expanding climate regulations, has given the industry \u201ca strong push towards airline decarbonization efforts.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Elissa Garay, CNN (CNN) \u2014\u00a0Most sustainability experts will scoff at the idea of \u201csustainable\u201d and \u201cairlines\u201d in the same sentence. \u201cToday, at this moment, it\u2019s not yet realistic to fly fully sustainably,\u201d says Pedro Piris-Cabezas, a global transportation expert and economist at the nonprofit Environmental Defense Fund. Yet that doesn\u2019t mean the airline industry …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6709,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpscppro_dont_share_socialmedia":false,"_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0,"_facebook_share_type":"","_twitter_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type":"","_pinterest_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type_page":"","_instagram_share_type":"","_medium_share_type":"","_threads_share_type":"","_google_business_share_type":"","_selected_social_profile":[],"_wpsp_enable_custom_social_template":false,"_wpsp_social_scheduling":{"enabled":false,"datetime":null,"platforms":[],"status":"template_only","dateOption":"today","timeOption":"now","customDays":"","customHours":"","customDate":"","customTime":"","schedulingType":"absolute"},"_wpsp_active_default_template":true},"categories":[102,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-en","category-flights"],"yoast_head":"\n