According to estimates of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), international aviation contributes about 3.5% to global warming.1 If growth in aviation volume continues at the same rate as in the 1990s, when international aviation grew 4% annually, the contribution of international aviation to the greenhouse effect could, already in 2010, be higher than Germany's contribution to global warming.
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154
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M. Cames, O. Deuber, U. Rath
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English
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201 96 107
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Umweltbundesamt
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1127 KB
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