ATAG: 'Our industry has a plan in place to reach net zero, now we need to accelerate and scale up'

Air Transport Action Group (ATAG) executive director Haldane Dodd, speaking at the CAPA Airline Leader Summit - Airlines in Transition, stated (24-Apr-2026) "As an industry, we've actually done an extraordinary thing of working out how we can meet our climate change obligations and what the process is to get there". Mr Dodd continued: "We [aviation] are always seen as a hard-to-abate sector, one of the seven hard-to-abate sectors, along with shipping, steel, concrete and so forth. However, we do have a plan in place. So, even though we are hard-to-abate, even though we've got massive challenges in getting to net zero, actually, we've got a lot of the fundamental agreements in place already". He said: "I think the key question for us now is how do we scale up and accelerate the action that we need to take, the SAF scale up, as well as technology and so forth, in order to get to where we need to go. And a lot of that stuff is not something that we can control ourselves as industry. We are going to need to have support from governments, from the energy sector, from the finance community and so forth". [more - CAPA TV]