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Abstract
This article presents the results of an interdisciplinary study of problems and ways to solve them in the field of ensuring the environmental safety of air transport in Russia and in the world, carried out by its authors. The environmental safety of air transport in Russia is provided in Russian legislation to a greater extent formally, but based on a rather deeply developed concept of “safety”, covering all areas of life. Wherein, there is an acute lack of collection and publication of quantitative indicators on which development of this research topic shall be based, in the adopted regulatory legal acts there is inconsistency and lack of development is felt. The authors focus on the need for scientific research in Russia and preparation of regulatory legal acts at a new qualitative level as overcoming Russia’s position as a catching-up country in this and a number of other areas, presenting new promising areas as a result of their scientometric work, including personal responsibility of passengers for reducing carbon emissions from their air travel.
Highlights
Being an important part of the transport sector, air transport provides convenient transportation and significant economic benefits, but it is a major environmental pollutant
Despite the significant shortcomings while reflecting the problems of ensuring the environmental safety of air transport in the regulatory framework, which, according to researchers [for example, 8], cannot be considered complete, and the search for ways of sustainable development of air transport in Russia has not yet been completed [9], the Transport strategy of the Russian Federation for the period up to 2030, among the tasks aimed at achieving goal 6 "Reducing the negative impact of the transport system on the environment" sets "increasing environmental requirements for aircraft" and "introduction of new environmentally friendly clean substances for aviation technologies, reduction of use of harmful substances, development of technologies for their utilization, implementation of research programs in the field of aviation biofuels"
As follows from the data provided, the two options considered in the Transport Strategy of the Russian Federation have significant differences and, lead to different levels of environmental safety of air transport, which, in our opinion, are seriously underestimated – indicators of environmental safety of air transport could be much higher in the context of a closer integration of the Russian government and science
Summary
Being an important part of the transport sector, air transport provides convenient transportation and significant economic benefits, but it is a major environmental pollutant. The greatest attention of the international community is paid to the problem of carbon emissions from air transport. In 2009, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) has launched an initiative to reduce carbon emissions by 50 % by 2050 to 2005 levels. In 2016, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) drew attention to this initiative, indicating that without mitigation measures, carbon emissions from air travel will reach 2.6 billion tonnes by 2050, which is 22 % of the global total and will become almost 11 times more than the current level of pollution (about 2 %) [1]. ICAO recently adopted a "carbon neutral growth from 2020" resolution requiring CO 2 emissions from international aviation not to exceed 2019–2020 levels [2].
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