I 110% agree with the need to curb emissions in the airline industry. It's a minor player right now but, unlike the UK as a whole or other developed countries, CO2 from aviation are rising, and rising fast - not falling.
Having said that, though, there is a power plant in Poland, Belchatow, that
emits 3 times more than the entire Ryanair. In fact the top-10 EU emitters, beside MO'L's little airline, are ALL coal power plants (most of them in Germany, I should add). There are proven ways to remove them from the energy mix of a country, so why doesn't Greenpeace and others put their energy and focus on getting rid of them? If they were to disappear tomorrow it's about 150Mt of CO2 removed every year. The
entire EU air transport emissions are 170Mt...