Sustainability

Negotiations on the 2050 long-term aspirational goal continued to the very end of the two-week assembly in Montreal

As Europe looks to introduce mandates requiring airlines to use sustainable aviation fuel, Asia does not have the infrastructure in place, AirAsia Group's chief sustainability officer says.

Finnish SAF producer Neste is working with Japan-based trading company Itochu and Fuji Oil Company on a pilot project aimed at validating the blending of SAF with conventional jet fuel in Japan.

Speaking at the GAD World conference in Amsterdam, Heathrow Airport CFO Javier Echave said setting requirements would create a “pipeline of consumption.”

As passenger traffic recovers, LCCs in Europe discuss their plans and needs for MRO services.

It is the latest in a series of SAF-related announcements as airlines and tech companies seek to increase supply of the fuels in a bid to help aviation decarbonize.

Upcoming flight trials by Universal Hydrogen mark a key milestone on the road to zero-carbon-emission air travel.

The past might yield fuel-savings and emission-reducing solutions for regional transport and larger aircraft.

Efforts to build up U.S. sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) production capacity to at least 3 billion gal. a year by 2030 have taken steps forward, with startups Alder Fuels and LanzaJet announcing progress in establishing their first plants.

Switching to hydrogen, from conventional Jet-A1 kerosene, can arguably be seen as a moonshot for commercial aviation.

In the range of solutions to drive aviation to a greener future, none alone will come close to being a silver bullet by 2050.

Starting to implement its strategy for the use of sustainable aviation fuels (SAF), the Air France-KLM group has signed multi-year contracts with suppliers Neste and DG Fuels.

The transport ministers of six EU countries have discussed short-term measures to curb demand for air transport and thus aviation’s CO2 emissions.

SAF is seen as the most realistic near-term option to cut aviation emissions, but securing more supply is an obstacle for the industry.

The two groups are challenging the government on the basis that Jet Zero breaches the UK Climate Change Act, because it fails to ensure that the UK’s carbon budgets will be met.

Biomass-based SAF offers scalability advantages.

It’s enough fuel to reduce 62,000 metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions.

UK-based SATAVIA is seeking carbon-credit accreditation and preparing for its first auction, after using its contrail-prevention methodology to adjust 49 Etihad Airways and KLM commercial flights.

Net-Zero won’t be an easy goal to reach.

Researchers look to quantify SAF-fueled engine exhaust properties by measuring emissions from Boeing 777-200ER ecoDemonstrator.

Boeing’s Cascade model will help inform policymakers on the effects of policies and incentives for sustainability initiatives.

IATA has set up a sustainable finance task force to come up with metrics guidance specific to the airline sector by the end of 2022.

From relatively humble beginnings, Boeing’s ecoDemonstrator program has become a major player in the battle for sustainable operations.

While it was no small feat for ICAO to adopt a sustainability goal at its latest general assembly, the hard work of achieving that target is just beginning.

Neste says it will be producing 1.5 million tons of sustainable aviation fuel by the end of 2023, but that the wider "industry cannot build refineries on hope."