Paris and online, 6-8 June 2023 — Climate change mitigation and steps towards achieving the 2050 net-zero CO2 aspirational goal for international aviation (LTAG) agreed at the 41st ICAO Assembly in 2022 were the focus of the sixth ECAC Environmental Forum, held in Paris.
This event gathered environment experts from a wide spectrum of both government and industry stakeholders. The experts gave presentations on the latest UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report on climate change mitigation, on the status of knowledge of the non-CO2 impacts of international aviation, on the main European expectations for COP28 later in 2023, and on different policies and roadmaps to achieve the ambitious in-sector reductions. The last of these focused particularly on sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) promotion but also on the future transition to the use of liquid hydrogen. Financing the energy transition also raised a productive debate among the participants.
ECAC’s three sister regional organisations (Arab Civil Aviation Organization, African Civil Aviation Commission and Latin American Civil Aviation Commission) and the aviation administrations of the United States and Canada brought the audience up to date on their environmental priorities, while ECAC Member States, the ECAC Secretariat, EASA, EUROCONTROL and the European Commission presented a number of European achievements and developments. A particular focus was placed on the main expectations for the Third ICAO Conference on Alternative Aviation Fuels (CAAF/3) planned in November 2023.