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Aviation is perpetually contentious in debates on climate change. The government says it wants people to be able to fly on holiday. But there's currently no technology that can radically cut emissions from planes.

The Climate Change Committee spells out the implications of that tension. The rest of the economy, it says, may have to cut its emissions 90% by 2050, so people can carry on flying in the meantime. The current target for the whole economy is 80%.

Green groups immediately demanded that the government should scrap its plans to expand Heathrow and other airports.

The Committee says aviation is a global problem, so it needs to be included in any deal in the coming climate change talks at the UN. Emissions from aviation in rich countries should be capped, then forced to return to 2005 levels, it says. Flying in poor countries should be allowed to grow for a while.

The government says it already supports the target of getting aviation emissions down to 2005 levels. But critics doubt ministers' plans for emissions to fall whilst aviation grows.

Roger Harrabin, BBC News

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is perpetually contentious
دائما موضوع بحث انگیزی است

debates
بحث های جدی

radically cut emissions
کاهش قابل توجه در تولید گازهای مضر

spells out the implications
پی آمدهایش را به وضوح شرح می دهد

tension
تنش

target
هدف، در اینجا: هدف تعیین شده ای که باید در زمان معین به آن دست یافت

scrap
لغو کردن، کنار گذاشتن

deal
در اینجا: توافق رسمی چند کشور

should be capped
باید محدود شود، باید سقفی برای آن تعیین شود

critics doubt ministers' plans
منتقدان به برنامه های وزیران با شک و بدبینی نگاه می کنند، منتقدان مطمئن نیستند نقشه های وزیران به نتیجه خواهد رسید