The justice implications of aviation are stark. Only approximately 6% of people in the world fly in a single year[ref]. While just one return transatlantic flight accounts for a climate impact equivalent to 3.2 tonnes of CO2 per passenger, an average person in Uganda emits just 1.1 tonne of greenhouse gasses in a whole year[ref]. The livelihoods and liveable climate future of people who do not fly at all are being destroyed by the relentless efforts to expand fossil-fueled industries, such as aviation. Our children’s right to a liveable future is being sacrificed to allow a minority of people to fly, an even smaller minority to fly frequently, an even smaller minority to live a private jet lifestyle, and an even smaller minority to maximise profits and wealth through the aviation industry.
While fossil fuel used by household and domestic transport is taxed, jet fuel is exempt from tax [ref].
As it stands, we know children’s lives everywhere have already been impacted irreversibly by a failure to urgently reduce global warming emissions. UNICEF have repeatedly warned the climate crisis is a child’s rights crisis [ref].
Children's Rights Over Flights 