Aviation’s green path is tough and uncertain
At the recent IATA AGM, senior executives were falling over themselves promising to "go green" with targets for 2030, or is it 2050 now?
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Africa says vaccine passports violate ‘Chicago’
African Ministers of Aviation have described the much-touted proposal to impose vaccine passports for air travelers as unacceptable. They say it is tantamount to discrimination against certain groups of the population, especially on the African continent which still has a…
IATA commits to a stricter net-zero target for 2050
UPDATE including ATAG – The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has adopted a resolution that commits the airline industry to even stricter climate targets and now aims to meet net-zero carbon emissions in 2050. During today’s 77th Annual General Meeting…
Airbus Summit seeks consensus on decarbonization
Are the airline and aerospace industries on the same page when it comes to sustainability and how to tackle the problem of climate change? And are they on the same page as Airbus? In summary, these were the central questions…
Russia’s Green Aviation Fuel Plans
Gazprom Neft announced today it entered into a partnership with Aeroflot to produce Russia’s first-ever minimum-carbon-footprint sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), under an agreement signed by Gazprom Neft CEO Alexander Dyukov and Aeroflot CEO Mikhail Poluboyarinov at this year’s Eastern Economic…
Africa’s empty airspace conundrum
Thirty-three countries in Africa are signatories to the agreement to implement the Single African Air Transport Market (SAATM) since January 2018. But the agreement appears to exist on paper rather than having been implemented as nations are still not fully…