00:00Prime Minister Andy Burnham has previously expressed concerns over the expansion, and it has long been opposed by climate experts
00:07and the Mayor of London, Lord Sadiq Khan.
00:10Last week, Chancellor John Healy said the government had given the go-ahead to the proposal to build a third
00:17runway at Heathrow Airport, which will cost an estimated £33bn, including £1.5bn, to move the M25 and increase the
00:27site's capacity to 756,000 flights and 150 million passengers.
00:34In advice requested by the government on its draft Heathrow Expansion national policy statement, the Climate Change Committee warned there
00:42was no credible pathway for the move within the UK's legal climate targets under current policies for cutting aviation emissions.
00:51The UK has a legal target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions overall to net zero by 2050, which means cutting
00:59pollution as near to zero as possible and then using solutions such as tree planting or technology to capture carbon
01:07from the atmosphere to offset the remainder.
01:10For aviation policies for cutting aviation emissions include more efficient aircraft and airspace management, sustainable aviation fuels, paying for projects
01:19that remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and reducing growth in demand for flights.
01:24The CCC says the airline sector should pay for the cost of these policies.
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