Posts Tagged ‘aviation’
21 May 2012
As a small, maritime trading nation Britain has always been quite a way away from key international markets. Our ability to visit far off places and people, and their access to us, has always been at the very heart of the UK’s ability to ‘punch above our weight in the world’, whether that’s commercially, culturally or diplomatically, writes Ben Caldecott, head of European policy at investment firm Climate Change Capital.
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18 April 2012
US technology giant Honeywell has launched a biofuel test flight programme in collaboration with the National Research Council of Canada and Agrisoma Biosciences.
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5 December 2011
The UK could be the first country to give customers the facility to choose their airline based on emissions and other environmental factors.
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2 December 2011
UOP has won a $1.1m contract from the US Federal Aviation Administration to develop and demonstrate technology that will produce renewable jet fuel from alcohols found in natural feedstocks.
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27 October 2011
Airplane manufacturers Boeing and Embraer have entered into a collaboration with Brazil’s Sao Paulo State Research Foundation, forming a long-term agreement to investigate the potential use of biofuels in the aviation industry.
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26 September 2011
The European Commission has released further details of how it plans to integrate the aviation industry into its emission trading system as part of the wider effort to lower emissions.
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22 June 2011
The European Commission, Airbus, European airlines and European biofuel producers, have launched a new initiative to support the commercialisation of aviation biofuels in Europe.
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6 June 2011
The row over whether airlines should be forced to pay for their carbon emissions has intensified with Airbus CEO warning of a trade war with China if the European Union enforces such measures.
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11 October 2010
The 190 contracting states of United Nations (UN) specialised agency International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) have struck the first global governmental deal to commit the global aviation sector to reduce greenhouse emissions from 2020.
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26 August 2010
The British Standards Institute (BSI) has been accredited to verify aircraft operators in the aviation industry under the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS).
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15 February 2010
Consultancy group Arcadis will team with British Airways for the development of a sustainable jet fuel plant to be developed by Solena Group.
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15 December 2009
Liquid fuel company Accelergy Corporation has announced a strategic partnership with the Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC) at the University of North Dakota. Under the terms of the agreement, Accelergy will licence EERC's proprietary technology as part of its Coal Biomass to Liquids (CBTL) process to accelerate the development of specialty liquid jet fuels used by the military from cleaner and non-petroleum sources.
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24 November 2009
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines has operated its first ever passenger flight powered by sustainable biokerosene.
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26 August 2009
European governments are not encouraging companies in the aviation industry to address the issue of climate change according to Peter Schneckenleitner, head of sustainability at airline Lufthansa.
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22 July 2009
A new report recommends the wide-scale deployment of sustainable bio-jet fuels which would result in emission reductions worth £37.41bn in the UK between 2020 and 2050, as well as making a significant contribution to meeting the UK's 2050 emission reduction target.
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17 June 2009
The Clean Sky aviation research project has launched its first call for proposals. The combined value of all work topics in this call is €35.4m, with funding provided up to a level of €26.5m.
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9 June 2009
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has announced that the airline industry is committed to achieving carbon-neutral growth by 2020, according to Giovanni Bisignani, IATA's director general and CEO, in his State of the Industry address at the IATA's Annual General Meeting in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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29 January 2009
The US Air Force has purchased synthetic jet fuel from Rentech, a US-based synthetic fuels development company.
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19 January 2009
The Shadow Transport Secretary for the Conservative Party Theresa Villiers has condemned the UK Government's decision to back the third runway at Heathrow, labelling it a ‘bleak day for our environments and for those of us that care about safeguarding it.'
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8 January 2009
Continental Airlines has tested the use of sustainable biofuel to power a commercial aircraft in the US.
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