Sustainability and Environment
Climate Expert Tells Aviation To Back Carbon Capture
Capturing carbon dioxide from aviation fuel consumption could have a far greater environmental benefit than current measures, but costs will be higher.

In debates over the best steps to achieving zero-carbon goals for aviation, some see sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) as a somewhat limited stopgap measure to be superseded by longer-term advances in propulsion technology, such as electric- and hydrogen-powered aircraft. However, according to Anthony Patt, professor of climate policy at Swiss university ETH Zurich, even those solutions won’t be sufficient for aviation to play its part in achieving the Paris Agreement’s goal of a net-zero world in 2050.