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Aviation industry likely to miss net zero target, warns former Schiphol boss

Ruud Sondag is one of the very few industry executives to publicly cast doubt on sector’s environmental targets

The aviation industry is likely to miss its target to reach net zero by 2050, the recently departed boss of Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport, one of Europe’s busiest hubs, has warned.

Ruud Sondag said he feared governments in Europe would intervene to limit the industry’s growth through higher taxes or caps on flights unless it improved its environmental record. 

“I think it’s important to . . . state that the plans that the aviation industry itself has, most probably will not lead to the result that we are all signed up for in the Paris Agreement,” Sondag told the Financial Times in an interview.

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