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減少飛機二氧化碳排放 歐美跨大西洋合作計劃起飛

2007年06月20日
摘譯自2007年6月18日ENS法國,波爾歇報導;謝芳怡編譯;蔡麗伶審校

A380空中巴士在Le Bourget機場表演飛行秀。 :: 照片來源:Alain Gillet在巴黎國際航展飛機的轟隆聲中,美國與歐盟官員18日共同發表減少飛機溫室氣體排放量的聯合行動計劃。在眾多航太工業代表的面前,歐盟部長理事會運輸事務副主席巴羅特以及美國聯邦航空總署局長布萊基發起一項名為「AIRE」的政策方案,目的在減少溫室氣體排放量和噪音污染。

大西洋溫室氣體減量互通計劃(AIRE),是第一個串聯大西洋兩岸航太業者的大規模環境計劃。雙方官員表示,AIRE計劃將會加快航空業採用新技術和航管程序的速度,進而在短中期內對溫室氣體排放量產生直接的影響。

AIRE計劃的政策措施包括「靜音」和「縮小引擎」等方案,透過這些措施將可減少飛機著陸時產生的噪音和溫室氣體排放量。上述的方案已在瑞典斯德哥爾摩、美國肯塔基州路易維耳市和喬治亞州的亞特蘭大市展開試驗,結果也顯示,燃料使用量以及二氧化碳、氮氧化物排放量都明顯減少了。

Transatlantic Plan to Cut Aircraft Emissions Lifts Off
LE BOURGET, France, June 18, 2007 (ENS)

Over the roar of planes at the Paris Air Show here, U.S. and European Union officials today announced a joint action plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions from aircraft. In the presence of aircraft industry representatives, European Commission vice president responsible for transport Jacques Barrot and Marion Blakey, administrator of the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration, launched a emissions and noise reduction policy called AIRE.

AIRE - the Atlantic Interoperability Initiative to Reduce Emissions - is the first large-scale environmental initiative bringing together aviation players from both sides of the Atlantic. AIRE will make it possible to speed up the application of new technologies and operational procedures which will have a direct impact in the short and medium term on greenhouse gas emissions, the officials said.

AIRE's new measures include "smooth" or "reduced engine" approaches, which will enable noise and exhaust gas emissions to be reduced during landing. Experiments already carried out with these approaches at Stockholm, Sweden; Louisville, Kentucky; and Atlanta, Georgia have shown substantial savings in fuel and emissions of carbon dioxide and nitrogen oxides.

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蔡麗伶(LiLing Barricman)

In my healing journey and learning to attain the breath awareness, I become aware of the reality that all the creatures of the world are breathing the same breath. Take action, here and now. From my physical being to the every corner of this out of balance's planet.