I just came across this video outlining a few of the ways Qantas is working to reduce its environmental impact:

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 [...]

The Clean Sky joint undertaking is a European Union programme aimed at getting government, research bodies and the industry working together and jointly funding research into technologies that could be applied to new aircraft designs, aimed at reducing emissions. It is a sister programme of the SESAR joint undertaking, which aims to build similar partnerships [...]

Day two at Farnborough and already many of the manufacturers are announcing orders with more to follow. The business of the show is business, after all, and it is fascinating to walk round the trade show and realise just how many different companies are involved in the aviation industry, with all the jobs and economic [...]

Today’s Guest Blogger is Dr. Rainer Ohler, SVP Public Affairs & Communications at Airbus.  In the first of a series of posts, he explores why the global need for more air travel is not inconsistent with creating a better environment and should be balanced with a greener world. As the dust (or volcanic ash) settles, [...]

Air New Zealand CEO Rob Fyfe made a few pointed comments at the Greener Skies lunch. The video is in three parts and a text copy of his speech is available here:

Cathay Pacific chief Tony Tyler talks to us about the industry targets, how we are going to get there and the recent news about new arrivals procedures at Hong Kong Airport.

We spoke to Rob a few minutes before his lunch address (which we will be uploading shortly). He filled us in on the biofuels trial Air New Zealand undertook, the technology and retrofits they are using to reduce emissions.

‘Research and Markets’ have provided us with some uplifting news this week, announcing the release of their new ‘Airports go green’ report. As we’ve noted in recent weeks, airports have made significant contributions in fighting climate change by adopting numerous strategies to limit their emissions. ‘Airports go green’ is dishing out some well-deserved praise to [...]

Today’s guest blogger is The Rt Hon Brian Wilson, former British Member of Parliament and current chair of Flying Matters, a UK coalition of aviation companies. The UK Environment Secretary, Ed Miliband, recently declared that lower-income people should not be priced out of flying on environmental grounds. The UK Treasury appears to have no such [...]