After COVID: A Lower Carbon Future for Commercial Aviation

Environmental and Energy Study Institute (EESI)

By Air, Land, and Sea: Navigating the Climate Future Find out more about the briefings in this series below: Nov. 17 Ports Leading the Way on Mitigation and Resilience Nov. 18 After COVID: A Lower Carbon Future for Commercial Aviation Nov. 19 The State of Play for Public Transit Overview of the transportation series A live webcast will be streamed at 12:00 PM EST at www.eesi.org/livecast The Environmental and Energy Study Institute (EESI) invites you to join us for a briefing series on climate mitigation and adaptation in the transportation sector. The series will cover ports, aviation, and public transit. As commercial aviation recovers from the COVID-19 contraction, it will be critical to foster strategies and policy to help the industry reduce its climate impact. In this briefing, we will examine two of these strategies—sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) and aircraft technology improvements. Rep. Julia Brownley (D-CA) will deliver opening remarks. Chris Tindal of the Commercial Aviation Alternative Fuels Initiative (CAAFI) will address the potential of low-carbon sustainable aviation fuels with life-cycle emissions substantially below conventional fossil-based jet fuel and the policy formula for scaling up the SAF industry. Barbara Esker of NASA’s Advanced Air Vehicles Program will describe NASA’s role in the development of new efficient engine and airframe technologies as well as gas-electric propulsion.