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‘Decarbonisation will have cost impacts, and these will be passed on to consumers,’ says Sustainable Aviation consultant Andy Jefferson


Aviation faces ‘pain of delivering carbon cuts’


Sector must start investing ‘$5 trillion’ to meet 25-year target. Ian Taylor reports He said: “We’re at a really early


The aviation industry faces the “pain of delivery” on decarbonisation with huge costs and significant barriers, but a failure to deliver risks constraints on flying and an end to growth in travel. That is according to Andy


Jefferson, consultant to the Sustainable Aviation industry coalition, who told an Abta Aviation Forum in London on Monday: “Decarbonisation will have cost impacts, and these will be passed on to consumers.” He insisted “we have a plan” but said: “We’re at the start of the pain of delivery.”


64 25 APRIL 2024 Jefferson outlined the mix


of measures – more-efficient flying, modernised airspace, fleet upgrades, sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and, from the mid-2030s, new aircraft and new fuels such as hydrogen, electric engines and ‘power to liquid’ or e-fuels. But he noted an Iata study


calculated the cost of decarbonising the industry at $5 trillion and the EU estimated aviation decarbonisation costs in Europe at €2 trillion, and asked: “How do you secure that funding?”


stage and it’s a 25-year journey [whereas] investment generally works on a 12-month cycle.” Jefferson told the forum: “We’ve


got to get into delivery and it’s painful because it involves spending.” He noted Sustainable Aviation’s


net zero plans assume 14% of the sector’s targeted reduction in emissions by 2050 will come from reduced demand due to the costs of


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