"There is a very strong push to force commercial and business aviation to be more sustainable, to do more than what we've been doing," said Marc Ehudin, GAMA's director of governmental affairs. Speaking yesterday at the California edition of AIN's Sustainable Flight Department forum, he detailed the demands that are being placed on the aviation industry to improve its sustainability efforts, which have been shaped by voluntary declarations such as business aviation's commitment on climate change first issued in 2009 and revised in 2015 and 2021. That document's goals included reducing CO2 emissions 50 percent by 2050 relative to 2005 levels and achieving carbon-neutral growth from 2020, as well as improving fuel efficiency by 2 percent per year from 2010 until 2020. Ehudin noted that between 2015 and 2020 the business aviation industry's CO2 emissions were 2.4 million tonnes less than levels forecast in 2015.
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