Parliament’s Environmental Audit Committee, which is made up of 16 MPs – half of them from the government – has cast doubt on whether expansion at the likes of Heathrow and Gatwick can be balanced against reducing emissions.
The group said the industry can't be left to pursue decarbonisation on its own, and warned new technologies won't be a silver bullet.
Toby Perkins MP, who chairs the committee, said: "The aviation industry is critically important to the UK, but it’s also one of the hardest sectors of our economy to decarbonise.
