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Runway climate change!

Updated: Apr 30, 2020

Expanded airport will blow entire Leeds carbon budget.

When Leeds City Council declared a climate emergency in 2019 they committed the city to a budget of 42 megatonnes of CO2 per year.

But if the airport expansion goes ahead then the entire budget will be blown by aviation.

Here's the evidence compiled by researchers at Leeds University.


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