Sustainable Aviation appoints first Chief Executive
Today Sustainable Aviation (SA) has announced the appointment of Duncan McCourt as its first Chief Executive. Duncan joins SA from Brunswick where he was a...
Addressing the climate challenge
Addressing the noise challenge
Ensuring a sustainable future for our industry
Our mission
Sustainable Aviation is a long term strategy which sets out the collective approach of UK aviation to tackling the challenge of ensuring a cleaner, quieter, smarter future for our industry.
Sustainable Aviation Carbon Road-Map: A path to Net Zero
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Following positive technological developments, UK aviation has updated its detailed plan on how we will reach our commitment to net zero carbon aviation by 2050.
Our Road-Map shows how we will achieve our net zero carbon emissions commitment by 2050, reducing our C02 output from around 39 million tonnes to zero whilst still growing UK aviation by 78%. This will be achieved through improvements in aircraft and engine efficiency, the use of sustainable aviation fuels, more efficient operations and airspace, the use of robust carbon offsets and investment in innovative carbon removal solutions will address residual.
There is also an estimated demand reduction in UK aviation due to decarbonisation costs from SAF, carbon removals, UK ETS and CORSIA.
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Aviation Powering Forward On Net Zero Flight But Calls On Government To Turbocharge Progress
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A Manifesto For UK Leadership In Sustainable Aviation
Aviation Industry Sets Out Route to Net Zero Flight in Updated Manifesto View the Manifesto Manifesto launched by Sustainable Aviation, the industry coalition of UK...
Key facts
The global aviation industry produces around 2% of all human-induced CO2 emissions
Aviation is responsible for 12% of CO2 emissions from all transport sources, compared to 74% from road transport
120,000
The number of people employed by Sustainable Aviation members, up by 2000 since 2014