@GoogleResearch: We've launched Operation Blue Skies, in partnership with the UK government and aviation leaders, to continue our work a…
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Google Research has launched Operation Blue Skies in partnership with the UK government and aviation leaders to address the climate impact of contrails from aviation.
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We’ve launched Operation Blue Skies, in partnership with the UK government and aviation leaders, to continue our work addressing the climate challenge of contrails.
Learn more in 🧵 from @ymatias, VP, Google & GM, Google Research ⬇️
Yossi Matias (@ymatias): Contrails account for roughly one-third of aviation’s total climate impact. We are making a major step in our work on mitigating aviation’s climate impact with the launch of Operation Blue Skies — the world’s first state-backed trial to avoid contrails at the scale of an entire
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