Sustainability: Industry's Next Steps

Even before sustainability climbed up the global agenda, aviation had every incentive to cut its fuel consumption and therefore emissions. Although there has been real progress, there is also much work still to be done, and major challenges lie ahead for aviation.

 

These challenges will encompass not only new technology, including airframe and propulsion types that will make aviation cleaner and more efficient, but also a host of regulatory hoops through which the aviation community must pass.

 

Aviation Week Network continues to explore the ongoing initiatives underway.

Latest News & Analysis

Aug 10, 2023
How lessons from the growth of Washington state’s apple industry may apply to managing aviation sustainability efforts.
Aug 09, 2023
Boeing’s legacy 727 has found an unlikely role as a first responder to global oil spills.
Aug 07, 2023
Comac/CATL electric aircraft venture; high-power silicon battery; JetBlue and carbon capture; and fly/drive evTOL hovers.
Aug 04, 2023
Singapore's Air Transport Industry Transformation Map 2025 lays out four strategies based around sustainability, safety, technology and workforce development.
Aug 03, 2023
An arcane accounting argument between federal departments, SAF producers and environmental groups is set to hobble SAF production in the US for years to come.
Aug 03, 2023
A permanent hydrogen refuelling station will be established at Teesside International Airport.
Aug 02, 2023
Both Universal Hydrogen and ZeroAvia are developing hydrogen-electric retrofits for the ATR 72.
Aug 01, 2023
However, the use of palm oil as a sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) feedstock remains controversial.