With the major UN Climate Talks in Copenhagen just a week away, our friends at Copenhagen Airport are preparing themselves for the arrival of dozens of heads of state. As Soeren Nielsen says in this interview, they don’t think the 15,000 – 20,000 delegates coming to the conference will be a problem for them to [...]

Some of you may have seen the IATA-produced film "Destination Zero". They have recently released an updated version to include the industry-wide targets and goals announced in the last month. The video is available on YouTube.

I am in Hong Kong, where leaders from the Asia-Pacific airline industry are meeting for Greener Skies 2009, a conference where we will discuss the recent industry announcement about reaching carbon neutral growth from 2020 and begin to chart a way forward for implementing this ambitious goal. Among the people gathered here are: Tony Tyler, [...]

Today, a group of airline chief executives will sit down with government and environment leaders at the UN in New York at one of a series of pre-events before December’s Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Copenhagen. By all accounts, the negotiations for the next Kyoto Protocol [...]

Today we launch The Beginner’s Guide to Aviation Biofuels – a look at the opportunities, challenges and next steps in the exciting world of aviation biofuels. In fact, we think that this will become another major milestone in the history of flight – we’ve gone from the age of the flight pioneers over a hundred [...]

Just over a year ago, at the Aviation & Environment Summit 2008, a group of the biggest names in the aviation industry gathered in Geneva and produced a commitment to aviation action on climate change. The cornerstone goal of that commitment was a pathway to carbon neutral growth. At the time, no one knew how [...]