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 Sustainability News & Analysis

May 12, 2025
The timeline for Clean Aviation relies on 2035 for service entry to enable the replacement of 75% of the fleet with more sustainable aircraft by 2050.
May 09, 2025
SIA group has acquired 1,000 tons of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) from Neste and another 2,000 tons of SAF from World Energy using the book and claim system.
May 09, 2025
The Trump administration’s fiscal 2026 budget request threatens to cut NASA programs that focus on green aviation.
May 09, 2025
Narrowbody aircraft lavatories are incorporating wheelchair accessibility, touchless options and easier-to-maintain features.
May 08, 2025
U.S. SAF production approximately doubled from December 2024 to February 2025 with slower growth forecast into 2026.
May 08, 2025
NASEM's report lays out a set of research priorities for NASA to help achieve its goal of reducing aviation-induced cloudiness and persistent contrails.
May 08, 2025
Clean Aviation executives are striving to firm up plans, even though they have slipped to the right, for both hybrid-electric and hydrogen propulsion.
May 08, 2025
United has invested in Twelve, which is building a plant to produce power-to-liquid sustainable aviation fuel from renewable electricity, captured CO2 and water