Growth of Air Freight and Polluting Industries.
For the lesson on 11 November after CAS week we will be looking at the
Growth of Air Freight and Polluting Industries.
You will be split in two groups, each group will be responsible for researching their area and will teach it in the lesson.
Air Freight and Food Miles please click here for the Google Pres. Click here for ISLE page.
Examine the concept of food miles and the environmental consequences of increasing volumes of air freight.
Polluting industries click here for Google Pres. Click here for ISLE page.
Discuss the reasons for and consequences of the relocation of polluting industries (such as some TNCs) and waste disposal (such as ICT, chemical and nuclear waste) to countries with weaker environmental controls and safety regulations.
Dibs air freight
ReplyDeleteAmanda, Ollie, David, Karina = Polluting Industries
ReplyDeleteWhy?
Because we kewl
Air Freight only accounts for 2% of Global CO2 emissions, whereas, Land use change and forestry accounts for 25%
ReplyDelete84% increase per year in freight
global economic downturn, looking for cheaper modes of transport
EU tax freight
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) has calculated the impact of dedicated freighters emissions per tonne kilometre as up to ten times those of road transport, and up to 4 to 3 times those of rail transport.
Air freight leads to particular noise problems as older, less efficient noisier passenger planes are often converted to freighters.
While UK freight volumes have been stable for a decade, global air freight has maintained steady growth. Globally, air freight climbed to a high of 88.5 million tonnes in 2007. By value, this amounts to 35-40% of world trade. However, the recession is now having an impact on this growth.
International express freight has grown at more than twice the rate of total air cargo traffic over the past decade, averaging 12.9 per cent annually.
Global supply chains are frequently multimodal incorporating air, land and shipping legs and the different modes are interdependent. Multimodal supply chains and transshipment (goods loaded from one plane to another) means that the distance freight travels often far exceeds that between the starting point and destination.