Brace for Turbulence: EU Member States’ Climate Strategies in the Aviation Sector, 2018-2020

The data is made available with the associated publication. We analysed the EU National Energy and Climate Plans (NECPs) in order to examine national commitments on aviation.

The data show how frequently EU Member States refer to aviation in their NECPs, and we code these references thematically. First, by conducting a content analysis on all 54 draft and final NECPs, we count the keywords associated with aviation. Second, we inductively and iteratively developed themes and sub-themes for each sentence in the final NECPs that contained an aviation reference (n = 494).