The shortest flight in Europe takes less than a minute – and it’s getting increasingly hard to justify emissions from such trips as the planet heats up. So, some countries in Europe have begun to outright ban certain routes. Will others follow? And – will such bans make any difference at all?

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We're destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn't need to be this way. Our new channel Planet A explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world — and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means. We look at the big and the small: What we can do and how the system needs to change. Every Friday we'll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess.

Credits:
Author: Aditi Rajagopal
Camera: Henning Goll
Video Editors: Aditi Rajagopal, Henning Goll
Supervising Editors: Kiyo Dörrer, Malte Rohwer-Kahlmann

Interviewees:
Stefan Gössling, professor, Linnaeus University
Pere Sánchez, researcher, professor

Read More:
The best plane is no plane at all: https://www.transportenvironment.org/...
Study on the substitution of short-haul flights by railway: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...
Limitations of short-haul flight bans: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...
Facts and figures from Greenpeace’s campaign to improve railways: https://www.greenpeace.org/internatio...
The industry’s take: https://www.euronews.com/green/2023/0...

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:54 The trouble with Flying in Europe
03:51 Big old bans
4:41 Alternatives?
5:49 Actual savings
8:07 Are bans the way to go?