Climate Change - Carbon Dioxide Emissions & Aircraft Contrails
This video is part of a series of microlearning courses aiming to provide insights into specific topics.
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Course description
This microlearning course provides a quick overview on the climate change due to release of greenhouse gas emissions and the formation of aircraft condensation trails.
This video is part of the Flightpath to a Greener Industry: Environmental Challenges and Initiatives in Aviation. To watch the full course and get your certificate click here.
Meet your instructor
Anil Padhra
Dr Anil Padhra is an academic and aviation professional. He is an Associate Professor in Sustainable Aviation at the University of West London, UK, a Senior Researcher at the Whittle Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK and a Visiting Associate Professor at the Kazimiero Simonavicius University in Lithuania. Dr Padhra has previously worked in air traffic management at NATS, in airline operations research at easyJet and in flight operations engineering at British Airways.
He is a member of the advisory team at the United Nations World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) on the impacts of climate variability on aviation. Since 2014 he has been a Member of the Royal Aeronautical Society in the UK.
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