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<strong>Aviation</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>Global</strong> <strong>Atmosphere</strong><br />

IS92a scenario, aviation's share of global CO 2 emissions rises from its current value of 2.1% to a level of 3.8% in 2025 <strong>and</strong> 6.8% in 2050. Across all scenarios,<br />

aviation's share of global CO 2 emissions ranges between 3.3 <strong>and</strong> 10% in 2025 <strong>and</strong> between 5.6 <strong>and</strong> 17.6% in 2050. These scenarios imply that aviation may become<br />

a significant contributor to global CO 2 emissions.<br />

Figure 9-22 shows <strong>the</strong> NO x emissions scenarios; <strong>the</strong>se scenarios incorporate <strong>the</strong> effects of fuel efficiency improvements as well as changes in EI(NO x ). For <strong>the</strong> base-<br />

dem<strong>and</strong> IS92a scenario, NO x emissions rise sharply from almost 2 Tg (as NO 2 ) in 1990 to 7.9 Tg in 2050. Because total NO x emissions are reduced as a result of fuel<br />

efficiency improvements <strong>and</strong> EI(NO x ) reduction, technological improvement can compensate for a greater fraction of dem<strong>and</strong> growth than in <strong>the</strong> case of CO 2<br />

emissions.<br />

Table 9-19 presents an excerpt of EDF model results of traffic dem<strong>and</strong>, fuel burned, <strong>and</strong> emissions of CO 2 <strong>and</strong> NO x through <strong>the</strong> year 2050 for <strong>the</strong> several sets of<br />

assumptions. The three-letter designators for <strong>the</strong> EDF scenarios (e.g., Eab, Eeh) are used throughout this report.<br />

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