The airlines should benefit from a “scrapping bonus” to encourage the purchase of new aircraft, with a less harmful climate assessment, the leader of the main professional organization in the sector in France advocates in the Sunday newspaper. “The energy transition is possible. Technical solutions exist. A very important lever is the renewal of aircraft”, emphasizes Pascal de Izaguirre, president of the National Federation of Aviation and its trades (Fnam) and general director of the Corsair company.
Developing the use of green fuels
Aviation accounts for between 2 and 3% of global CO2 emissions, the main greenhouse gas, according to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), a UN agency.
Pascal de Izaguirre also judges that green fuels represent the “main lever” to decarbonise the sector but regrets that “today there is no French productive sector and therefore there are no non-fossil fuels available”. “Fnam is asking the State to create a biofuel sector committee, with its various actors, including energy companies,” he pleads.
Source: BFM TV
