Sustainability and Environment
EBACE Luncheon Provides Food for Sustainability Thoughts
Monday's sustainability lunch at EBACE examined where the industry is and where it is going on its journey towards net-zero carbon emissions.
Juergen Wiese, EBAA chairman (left), and NBAA president and CEO Ed Bolen open the 2022 EBACE Sustainability Luncheon.
Juergen Wiese, EBAA chairman (left), and NBAA president and CEO Ed Bolen open the 2022 EBACE Sustainability Luncheon.

“You can have a vision, but if you don’t act now, you stay a dreamer.” With that comment, EBAA chairman Juergen Wiese summed up business aviation’s sustainability aspirations thus far. Kicking off EBACE’s Sustainability Luncheon on Monday, Wiese who is also head of BMW’s flight department, described the goals previously stated by the industry in 2009, which included the 50 percent reduction of CO2 emissions by 2050 relative to 2005 levels. Last year, that was stepped up to carbon neutrality by 2050. “It was a great vision,” Wiese told the audience, “but how do we get to it?”