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

May 23, 2023
T&E commissioned the study, which was carried out by research group Steer, to examine operating costs of hydrogen aircraft within Europe. 
May 23, 2023
The proposed biorefinery at south Malaysia’s Pengerang Integrated Complex would produce HEFA/HVO, SAF and bionaphtha at a capacity of 12,500 barrels daily.
May 23, 2023
The commitment by IATA member airlines at the AGM in Boston in 2021 to be carbon net zero by 2050 was remarkable.
May 23, 2023
Activists breached security at EBACE to make their point at the static display.
May 23, 2023
France’s ban on domestic flights on routes for which rail alternatives of less than 2.5 hr. exist has taken effect as part of French efforts to decarbonize.
May 22, 2023
Technology being hatched under Europe’s newly launched Clean Aviation aeronautics research program could help decarbonize business aviation.
May 21, 2023
Demand for sustainable aviation fuel is growing within the business aviation sphere, with securing supply still the real challenge.
May 19, 2023
Airport caps and route cuts are becoming European governments’ go-to environmental tools, even if they don’t work.