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Sustainable aviation research is focused on reducing the environmental impacts resulting from air transportation. In this section, you will find news and publications from MIT researchers focused on both the impacts of aviation emissions as well as potential measures to reduce these emissions.

Marginal climate and air quality costs of aviation emissions

Authors: Carla Grobler, Philip J Wolfe, Kingshuk Dasadhikari, Irene C Dedoussi, Florian Allroggen, Raymond L. Speth, Sebastian D Eastham, Akshat Agarwal, Mark D Staples, Jayant Sabnis, and Steven R. H. Barrett

Bioenergy and its use to mitigate the climate impact of aviation

Author: Mark Douglas Staples

Impact of biofuels on contrail warming

Authors: Fabio Caiazzo, Akshat Agarwal, Raymond L. Speth, Steven R. H. Barrett

Reducing the air quality and CO2 climate impacts of taxi and takeoff operations at airports

Authors: Akshay Ashok, Hamsa Balakrishnan, Steven R.H. Barrett

Scenario based lifecycle analysis of greenhouse gas emissions from petroleum-derived transportation fuels in 2050

Author: Cassandra Vivian Rosen

The co-pollutant cost of carbon emissions: an analysis of the US electric power generation sector

Authors: Irene C Dedoussi, Florian Allroggen, Robert Flanagan, Tyler Hansen, Brandon Taylor, Steven R. H. Barrett and James K. Boyce

A stochastic techno-economic comparison of alternative jet fuel production pathways

Author: Seamus J Bann

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