Roslesinforg announced environmental damage due to sanctions

Due to sanctions against air carriers, the increase in carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere increases daily by more than 2 thousand tons. This was reported by Roslesinforg, after analyzing the dynamics of air travel over Russia and global indicators of carbon dioxide emissions.

As Roslesinforg found out, last year the number of transit flights over the territory of Russia decreased by 59% compared to 2021 (79,652 against 183,692 flights). The duration of flights around the world has increased from 30 minutes to five hours, including because aircraft have to change their flight path when flying around Russia.

According to the director of Roslesinforg, Pavel Chashchin, 3,000 liters of fuel are burned per hour of an aircraft flight, and one liter burned produces more than 2.5 kg of carbon dioxide, that is, one additional hour of flight increases emissions by 7.5 tons. Approximately 285 daily flights last year began to operate on new routes, and if each flight increased by at least an hour, then the volume of CO2 emissions increased daily by 2137.5 tons, Chashchin calculated.

“In the 455 days since the restrictions were introduced on February 25, 2022, at least 972.5 thousand to 4.8 million tons of CO2 were emitted into the atmosphere. This is equivalent to the annual emission of ten coal plants,” said the head of Roslesinforg.

After the start of the military operation in Ukraine , the EU countries, as well as the United States and Canada, closed their skies to Russian airlines. As a response , Russia banned flights from 36 countries without special permission from the Federal Air Transport Agency or the Foreign Ministry. In October , Bloomberg wrote that the closure of Russian airspace to airlines from the US and the EU led to an increase in flight times to Asia for the world's largest airlines, as well as a significant increase in fuel costs.

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In December, the head of the International Air Transport Association (IATA), William Walsh, urged the West to prepare for the resumption of flights through Russia. “We should strive to reopen Russian airspace to make it available to all airlines for transit through traditional Siberian flights so that Europe can reach Asia in the most efficient way,” he said.