Biden Urges Net-Zero Aviation by 2050 in Leap Beyond Cars
- Buttigieg to unveil 40-page plan at Glasgow climate summit
- Aviation has been one of the tougher sectors to decarbonize
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President Joe Biden’s administration is targeting one of the tougher sources of climate-warming greenhouse gases with a plan that calls for the U.S. aviation sector to reach net-zero emissions by 2050.
Aviation has been more challenging to decarbonize than automobiles, which can essentially run on batteries, but Biden’s 40-page plan released Tuesday calls for increasing production of sustainable airplane fuels and developing new aircraft technologies. It also urges increasing operational efficiencies to reduce the amount of fuel that is burned during flights.