NATS recently announced that it is on course to achieve an average 10% reduction of CO2 per flight by 2020. This impressive reduction has been achieved by improved internal sustainability procedures, with staff commuting less, recycling more and using alternative energy sources such as solar power wherever possible. However, the major impact has been made [...]

On Thursday and Friday last week the aviation industry gathered at the 5th Aviation & Environment Summit. Here are two video wrap ups of what happened. You can find more video content on the Enviro.aero YouTube channel. Thanks to everyone who gave up their time to talk to us. Day 1 Day 2

Helene V. Gagnon from Bombardier speaks about everything from biofuels to iPad applications at the 5th Aviation & Environment Summit 2010 in Geneva. The interview is also avialable in French.

Over 300 delegates from across the aviation industry have been gathered in Geneva over the last two days for ATAG’s Aviation & Environment Summit. The focus of the Summit has been to assess progress towards the industry-wide targets to reduce aviation emissions. Being the only industry to present a set of global targets to the [...]

As part of the Aviation and Environment Summit 2010, Richard Deakin, the CEO of NATS spoke about ANSP work in reducing the impact of flights on the environment. This includes NATS work with BAA and British Airways in July where they created a one-off ‘perfect flight’ that produced the most minimal amount of CO2 possible [...]

Today’s high level panel discussion gathered industry leaders and offered further insight into industry commitments and challenges ahead. Adrian Finighan, Business International anchor of CNN International moderated the debate and on the panel were  Marcio Favilla of the UNWTO, Cathay‘s Tony Tyler, NATS‘s Richard Deakin, Pratt & Whitney‘s David Hess, Iberia‘s Antonio Romero, Bombardier’s Guy [...]

IATA Director General and CEO Giovanni Bisignani set the tone in his opening address of Day 2 of ATAG’s Aviation & Environment Summit: The industry is united and committed to delivering on fuel efficiency improvements and carbon neutral growth from 2020. A good example of industry unity was highlighted at the highest level during last [...]

Today was the first day of ATAG’s 2010 Aviation & Environment Summit and what a day of lively debates and major industry announcements it has been. This year’s Summit kicked off with ATAG director Paul Steele highlighting how the industry has taken a giant leap forward in setting ambitious targets. In fact, the industry is [...]

Today at the ATAG Aviation & Environment summit, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced the launch of the iFlex program which will allow airlines to reduce carbon emissions and fuel burn by up to 2% on certain long-haul flights. Building on the experience of the ‘Perfect Flights’ and using current technology to achieve the [...]

Olivier Jankovec, who is the Director General of ACI Europe (that’s the European trade body for airports) has just announced at ATAG’s Aviation & Environment Summit that in the space of 15 months and 22 airports in 12 European countries are participating in Airport Carbon Accreditation. Launched in June 2009, the programme independently assesses and [...]