Addressing the climate challenge

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Addressing the noise challenge

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Ensuring a sustainable future for our industry

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Our mission

Sustainable Aviation is a coalition of UK airlines, airports, aerospace manufacturers, fuel producers and partners all committed to delivering carbon net zero aviation by 2050, and to minimising the impact of aviation noise. We have a long term strategy which sets out the collective approach of UK aviation to tackling the challenge of ensuring a cleaner, quieter, smarter future for our industry.

Cleaner Cleaner

Following positive technological developments, UK aviation has updated its detailed plan on how we will reach our commitment to net zero carbon aviation by 2050.

Quieter Quieter

We are committed to limiting and, where possible, reducing the impact of aircraft noise. Each new aircraft is quieter than the one it replaces, and our updated Noise Road Map shows noise from UK aviation is set to fall by a third from 2019 to 2035.

Smarter Smarter

We are committed to delivering a sustainable future for aviation by working together to drive innovation, delivering smarter operations and ensuring we make a positive contribution to both the UK and global society and economy.

Sustainable Aviation Carbon Road-Map: A path to Net Zero

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Following positive technological developments, UK aviation has updated its detailed plan on how we will reach our commitment to net zero carbon aviation by 2050.

Our Road-Map shows how we will achieve our net zero carbon emissions commitment by 2050, reducing our C02 output from around 39 million tonnes to zero whilst still growing UK aviation by 78%. This will be achieved through improvements in aircraft and engine efficiency, the use of sustainable aviation fuels, more efficient operations and airspace, the use of robust carbon offsets and investment in innovative carbon removal solutions will address residual.

There is also an estimated demand reduction in UK aviation due to decarbonisation costs from SAF, carbon removals, UK ETS and CORSIA.

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Sustainable aviation technology is reducing industry’s noise impact even as sector grows

Sustainable Aviation publishes Noise Road-Map showing how latest-generation aircraft will significantly reduce aviation noise in the UK UK aviation noise output is forecast to reduce...

Sustainable Aviation’s statement about Autumn Budget 2024

Sustainable Aviation welcomes the measures the Government has set out in the Budget today that will support UK aviation on its journey to Net Zero...

Sustainable Aviation appoints first Chief Executive

Today Sustainable Aviation (SA) has announced the appointment of Duncan McCourt as its first Chief Executive. Duncan joins SA from Brunswick where he was a...

Key facts

The global aviation industry produces around 2% of all human-induced CO₂ emissions

Aviation is responsible for 12% of CO₂ emissions from all transport sources, compared to 74% from road transport

120,000

The number of people employed by Sustainable Aviation members, up by 2000 since 2014