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Embraer CEO Touts Green Credentials of E-Jets, Future Propjet
The Brazilian OEM expects to reveal plans early next month for technologies to meet a 2050 net-zero emissions target for its current and future aircraft.
Arjan Meijer, CEO of Embraer Commercial Aviation, stands in front of a banner showing a rendering of the Brazilian OEM’s concept of a NextGen turboprop aircraft at the IATA AGM in Boston. (Photo: Cathy Buyck)
Arjan Meijer, CEO of Embraer Commercial Aviation, stands in front of a banner showing a rendering of the Brazilian OEM’s concept of a NextGen turboprop aircraft at the IATA AGM in Boston. (Photo: Cathy Buyck)

Embraer will reveal in early November a range of conceptual designs employing technologies meant to achieve the aviation industry’s goal of net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, according to Embraer Commercial Aviation CEO Arjan Meijer. The technological roadmap toward zero emissions for the airframer's regional aircraft forms part of a comprehensive set of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) commitments announced by the Brazilian manufacturer in August. “The first two scopes of the ESG targets were about reducing emissions internally, on a company level,” Meijer told AIN on the sidelines of the recent International Air Transport Association’s annual general meeting in Boston. “The third scope is about the product and how we will strive to get to net-zero CO2 [flying] in 2050.”


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