🛫 Boeing is ready for takeoff

📈 Love it or hate it, but humanity is flying more and more. The sector is growing at 3-4% a year and it’s been estimated that 2 billion annual journeys today will become 10 billion by 2050, with emissions more than doubling to over 2Gt. 

🎯 Thankfully, aviation has a collective, global net-zero target for 2050. According to IATA, the plan is to achieve this by primarily focusing on sustainable aviation fuel to do around 65% of the job. Technology innovation will reduce a further 13%, and infrastructure optimisation 3%.

😳 The rest - 19%, which are an estimated 200 to 950 million tonnes - will have to be compensated with carbon removal. So aviation is one of the few sectors that has already clearly recognised that it cannot achieve net-zero without CDR.

🤝 Today, Boeing - one of the world’s leading airplane manufacturers - has partnered with Carbonfuture to procure 40,000+ tonnes of durable CDR, making it one of the aviation sector’s largest deals of high-durability CDR. Every single credit will be tracked from cradle to grave using the Carbonfuture infrastructure.

🖤 The best bit? All Global South Biochar Carbon Removal, something very close to my heart given its incredible co-benefits. 

👏 This is great news and hopefully just a glimpse of what is to come for aviation.

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