Airbus and LATAM Airlines announced plans to fund a study in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) t Program on Science and Policy of Global Change (MIT t Program).
The study, entitled “Options to sustainably decarbonize aviation in Latin America: an assessment of carbon policies, carbon prices and aviation fuel consumption up to 2050”, will provide a comprehensive analysis of scenarios for the deployment of Fuels Sustainable Aviation (SAF) by the year 2050 and will explore avenues related to low-carbon hydrogen, direct air capture and bioenergy with carbon capture and storage. In addition, it will assess the use of incentives, carbon taxes and carbon offsets, among other quantifiable policy instruments, to offset aviation emissions.
“As a difficult sector to abate carbon emissions, without a comprehensive short-term solution, carbon neutrality by 2050 is not something the aviation industry can achieve on its own,” said Juan José Tohá, Director of Corporate Affairs and Sustainability at LATAM Airlines Group. “Progress is needed to define and implement enabling conditions and policy frameworks for pathways such as SAF, operational efficiencies, new technologies and carbon offsets in South America, while ensuring that this transition is sustainable and that people can still afford and benefit from the connectivity that aviation offers. We hope this study can guide and drive collaborative efforts to advance the decarbonization of the sector in the region.”
“Airbus is focused on reducing its own carbon emissions and is contributing to the mission set out by ICAO and ATAG for aviation to achieve net zero emissions by 2050. We intend to be a strategic player in the implementation of this roap and welcome initiatives and policies that encourage efficiency and innovation, including ambitious targets to increase SAF,” said Guillaume Gressin, vice president of International, Strategic and Commercial Operations for Airbus Latin America and the Caribbean.
The MIT t Program researchers plan to publish the results of the study in April 2024. Their analysis will include practical recommendations for Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico and Peru on pathways to decarbonize the aerospace sector.
An integrated team of natural and social scientists who study complex interactions between co-evolutionary and interconnected global systems, the MIT t Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change produces comprehensive projections of global and regional changes under different environmental, economic, and political scenarios. These projections allow public and private sector decision makers to better assess the impacts and costs and benefits associated with possible courses of action.
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