Former Red Arrows pilot swaps being ‘bad boy of climate change’ to fighting emissions with military grit Justin Hughes is using his experience as a fighter pilot in the fight to reduce carbon emissions.
But the former fighter pilot of 12 years and member of the Royal Air Force aerobatics team is using his military experience in the fight to reduce carbon emissions, by setting his sights on agriculture, an industry that pumps out more carbon dioxide than aviation.
For Mr Hughes, the key to disrupting that section of the industry – which is responsible for 2.1 per cent of all CO² emissions - may be a lesser-known bacteria, first discovered lurking in Brazilian sugarcane in 1988.
Former Red Arrows pilot Justin Hughes is more used to soaring through the air than toiling in the dirt.
Mr Hughes is under no illusions that the road ahead will be “straight or easy”, he believes his own military experience bolsters his prospects of success.
