19 Apr 2024

SAVi 5: ICCT Net Zero 2050 progress update, MONTE’s new cl...

The International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) published a blog post on 15th April summarising progress by avi...

9 Jan 2024

Turboprops: Could ESG concerns help their commercial outlo...

It is often said that the best solution to a problem is the easiest one, and yet as the airline industry pours time and ...

15 Dec 2023

SAVi Five: COP28 ends with snag for CORSIA and coalition f...

This update’s key stories include outcomes for aviation at COP28, and IATA’s latest SAF estimates for 2023 and 2024, and...

15 Nov 2023

Briefing: What do contrails and their climate impacts mean...

They are an icon of the jet age, but they can also be terrible for the climate. Ishka looks at why aircraft investors sh...

29 Sep 2023

SAVi Five: SAF policy hints from Germany, UH surpasses 250...

This week’s key stories include policy hints on SAF and more from Germany’s third National Aviation Conference and Unive...

11 Aug 2023

SAVi Five: Google highlights non-CO2 effects, Eviation ste...

This week's highlights include Google’s high-profile work to mitigate the non-CO2 effects of aviation through AI contrai...

8 Jun 2023

Four ESG narratives dominate aviation finance – new FPG Am...

Rank these aviation ESG statements, and I’ll tell you who you are. This is, broadly speaking, the approach taken by FPG ...

5 May 2023

SAVi Five: White paper calls for turboprop renaissance, Ry...

This week's highlights include Sustainable Aero Lab laying down three pathways in new white paper, Ryanair signing a maj...

20 Apr 2023

New UK net zero roadmap sees more SAF, but also slowing pa...

A revised UK aviation industry-backed net zero carbon roadmap has made a rare acknowledgment that the higher costs of de...

24 Nov 2022

EU pushes aviation levies to pay for new COP27 landmark fu...

The EU has pushed for a “broad donor base” including highly polluting sectors like aviation to pay for COP27's landmark ...

21 Oct 2022

AC22 round-up: Costing up aviation decarbonisation policie...

Ishka explores the reaction to ICAO’s recently announced 2050 Net Zero goal, the impact of higher ETS costs, and CORSIA’...

21 Sep 2022

Investor briefing: The problematic sustainability argument...

Much is known about operational emissions of aircraft, but much more is yet to be learned about the environmental impact...

2 Aug 2022

SAVi Extra Farnborough Special: UK net zero plan, propulsi...

This six-page SAVi Extra special captures the 2022 Farnborough Airshow sustainability highlights.

3 Jun 2022

Is aviation tempting regulatory fate with missed environme...

As the industry embarks in a concerted effort to decarbonise, a spotty record of missed environmental pledges hampers it...

30 Mar 2022

Why the non-CO2 effects of aviation are now under the EU m...

High-level EU aviation stakeholders at a conference in Brussels this week shared that growing attention is being paid to...

25 Mar 2022

KPMG forecasts 15 to 30-year SAF ‘heyday’ window

New propulsion technologies in development today could mean that SAF’s heyday is concentrated in a 15 to 30-year regulat...

16 Nov 2021

COP26 leaves vague aviation targets and VIP flight shaming...

The 2021 UN Climate Change Conference, also known as COP26, ended last week with climate pledges by nations for aviation...