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

Mar 04, 2025
ICAO’s environmental protection committee (CAEP) has come up with a mechanism to track aviation’s progress toward net zero.
Mar 04, 2025
Cooling megawatt fuel cells, a hybrid-electric regional jet and a streetwise flying car.
Mar 03, 2025
Industry associations sound the alarm over pending judicial action in California related to unleaded avgas for piston-engine aircraft.
Mar 03, 2025
The airline industry will have to review its target of reaching net zero emissions by 2050, IATA Director General Willie Walsh said.
Feb 28, 2025
In contrast with ATR’s parallel hybrid approach to the EVO, Aura Aero is betting on a series hybrid layout involving two turbogenerators.
Feb 27, 2025
MTU and Pratt & Whitney want a place on the next narrowbodies developed by Boeing and Airbus. The engine-makers now rule out an open fan.
Feb 26, 2025
Arcadia eFuels and LanzaJet have flagged several EU policy discrepancies which are making it harder to get their projects off the ground.
Feb 26, 2025
The European aviation sector said the Clean Industrial Deal for decarbonizing the industrial sector is “a positive first step” but urged further action.