Virgin Atlantic, Delta establish airline climate taskforce
Virgin Atlantic has joined global airline partners Air France KLM and Delta Air Lines to form a new green aviation taskforce.
The airlines, in collaboration with Boston Consulting Group, have established the Aviation Climate Taskforce (ACT), a new non-profit organisation founded to accelerate breakthroughs in emerging technologies to decarbonise aviation.
ACT will stimulate innovation in the next generation of technologies, principally focussed on critical medium-term solutions, such as synthetic fuel and direct air capture.
Over time, it plans to include more near-term solutions, such as emerging bio-based Sustainable Aviation Fuel.
Shai Weiss, CEO at Virgin Atlantic, said: "We’re proud to be founding members of the Aviation Climate Taskforce. We strongly echo the need for a portfolio approach and continued collaboration across the energy and aviation value chains. The Aviation Climate Taskforce will support near and medium-term innovations in emerging SAF pathways."
Earlier this month, Virgin Atlantic announced ambitious carbon targets as part of a renewed mission to achieve net zero by 2050.
The targets include increased fleet efficiency and committing to the use of 10% Sustainable Aviation
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