Boeing is united with our customers and governments around the globe in committing to bold climate change ambitions. Civil aviation currently contributes 2.5 percent of the world’s total carbon emissions and Boeing is driving action to realise the sector’s commitment to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050. We are also helping to delivery on the Australian Jet Zero Council’s mandate to reduce aviation emissions domestically.
The future of flight will require us to simultaneously pursue multiple pathways to achieve net zero carbon emissions. Boeing’s strategic pathways to reduce emissions are fleet renewal, operational efficiency, renewable energy, advanced technologies and market-based measures including carbon removals.
Recognising the critical role sustainable aviation fuel plays as a near-term technology to reduce emissions in this hard to abate industry, Boeing has committed that our commercial airplanes will be capable and certified to fly on 100% sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) by 2030.
We are working in partnership with airlines across Australia and around the world. Boeing and Virgin Australia released an activity report detailing key activities undertaken together throughout the 2024 financial year (1 July 2023 - 30 June 2024) under our Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) focused on sustainability initiatives. The MoU recognises the ability of both Boeing and Virgin Australia to leverage their significant Australian operational footprints to amplify and accelerate sustainability-related outcomes.
Boeing and CSIRO released a SAF Roadmap in August 2023 to explore how Australia can establish itself as a leading SAF producer in the Asia Pacific region. The Sustainable Aviation Fuel Roadmap builds consensus on developing an Australian sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) industry, including identifying opportunities to produce and scale production using Australian feedstocks. You can read more about the Roadmap below, in the news release, or from our CSIRO partners.
Significant strides have been made in sustainable aviation across Australia since our joint Roadmap with CSIRO a year ago. Our new Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) State of Play report for Australia details the domestic and global decarbonisation progress through advancing SAF.
The 'Enabling aviation sector decarbonisation through SAF accounting' report, produced in collaboration with Virgin Australia, explores market based accounting approaches that provide a pathway for domestic airlines to account SAF used in non-Australian domestic flights. This research contributes to meeting Scope 1 emissions reduction obligations under Australia’s Safeguard Mechanism.
