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Cutting the Clouds: Europe’s Push to Reduce Aviation’s Climate Impact

The document outlines a conceptual approach for the A4Climate contrail avoidance flights, aiming to identify operational strategies that minimize aviation’s non-CO₂ climate impact — particularly the formation of persistent contrails and contrail cirrus.

The event brought together experts from academia, aviation, and policy to discuss the latest advances in contrail prediction, monitoring, observation and mitigation

The A4Climate project officially launched with a dynamic and collaborative kick-off meeting, bringing together 17 partner institutions from 9 countries