The WSS will present a platform particularly tailor-made for airline sustainability professionals, regulators and coverage makers.
The Worldwide Air Transport Affiliation (IATA) will launch the IATA World Sustainability Symposium (WSS) in Madrid, Spain on 3-4 October. With governments now aligned with the business’s dedication to decarbonize aviation by 2050, this symposium will facilitate crucial discussions, in seven key areas:
• The general technique to realize internet zero emissions by 2050, together with Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAF)
• The essential function of presidency and coverage assist
• Efficient implementation of sustainability measures
• Financing the power transition
• Measuring, monitoring and reporting emissions
• Addressing non-CO2 emissions
• The importance of worth chains
“In 2021 airways dedicated to internet zero emissions by 2050. Final yr governments made the identical dedication via the Worldwide Civil Aviation Group. Now the WSS will convey collectively the worldwide group of sustainability consultants within the business and governments to debate and focus on the important thing enablers for aviation’s profitable decarbonization, our largest problem ever,” mentioned Willie Walsh, IATA’s Director Common who’s confirmed to talk at WSS.
The WSS will present a platform particularly tailor-made for airline sustainability professionals, regulators and coverage makers, in addition to stakeholders within the business’s worth chain.
Audio system will embody:
• Patrick Healy, Chair, Cathay Pacific
• Roberto Alvo, CEO, LATAM Airways Group
• Robert Miller, Professor of Aerothermal Know-how and Director of the Whittle Laboratory on the College of Cambridge
• Suzanne Kearns, Founding Director, Waterloo Institute for Sustainable Aviation (WISA)
• Andre Zollinger, Coverage Supervisor, Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Motion Lab (J-PAL), Massachusetts Institute of Know-how MIT
• Marie Owens Thomsen, Senior Vice President Sustainability and Chief Economist, IATA
The Worldwide Air Transport Affiliation (IATA) is a commerce affiliation of the world’s airways based in 1945. IATA has been described as a cartel since, along with setting technical requirements for airways, IATA additionally organized tariff conferences that served as a discussion board for value fixing.
Consisting in 2023 of 300 airways, primarily main carriers, representing 117 nations, the IATA’s member airways account for carrying roughly 83% of complete accessible seat miles air visitors. IATA helps airline exercise and helps formulate business coverage and requirements. It’s headquartered in Montreal, Canada with government workplaces in Geneva, Switzerland.