- Lufthansa Group sees expanding desire in Sustainable Aviation Gasoline for CO2-neutral business travel
- Lufthansa Team proactively acquires Sustainable Aviation Fuel for 250 million US-Bucks and joins SBTi initiative
- Administration consultancy Kearney is new business purchaser in Compensaid Corporate Program


CO2-neutral flying is by now possible these days. The Lufthansa Group is pursuing an ambitious route for a lot more weather friendly aviation and, due to the fact spring 2021, in addition to private tourists, has also been presenting corporations the solution of working with Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) for their flights. Steadily additional of the Lufthansa Groups company buyers are fascinated in this weather pleasant form of business travel or freight transportation. Following the insurance policy enterprise AXA Deutschland, the logistics assistance providers DB Schenker and Kuehne+Nagel, Kearney has now also become the 1st internationally lively administration consultancy to devote thoroughly in SAF. As a final result, Kearney is now applying the Lufthansa Groups Compensaid Corporate Program to make the vast majority of its business flights CO2-neutral.


As Europes biggest purchaser of Sustainable Aviation Gas, we presently enable CO2-neutral traveling. Among our company prospects, we are looking at expanding curiosity in employing this genuine choice to fossil aviation fuel. Every single corporation that now invests in Sustainable Aviation Fuel spurs the industry ramp-up and so makes an significant contribution on the way to CO2-neutral air transport, says Christina Foerster, Member of the Lufthansa Groups Govt Board accountable for Consumer, IT & Company Accountability.
Lufthansa Group continues to devote in Sustainable Aviation Gas

A few days in the past, the Lufthansa Group secured sustainable kerosene for a quarter of a billion US-Pounds in order to be able to fulfill the foreseeable increase in demand from customers in the coming years. This is the most significant pure sustainability financial commitment in the history of the Lufthansa Group to day.


Sustainable Aviation Fuel is at present created mainly from biogenic residues, for instance from made use of cooking oils. This usually means that the new aviation fuel can, in standpoint, help nearly CO2-neutral aviation. The Lufthansa Group has been concerned in SAF investigate for many a long time and has built up an substantial community of partnerships. The business is already the major consumer of SAF in Europe, a pilot consumer of the first industrially made Energy-to-Liquid fuel around the globe, and also aims to be among the worlds major airline teams in the use of sustainable kerosene.


Currently, really small SAF is available on the global current market and it is drastically much more highly-priced than conventional kerosene. The Lufthansa Group is for that reason functioning on numerous jobs to advance the development and availability of SAF which includes, in distinct, SAF created from renewable electrical energy. In addition to the use of additional successful, most recent-generation aircraft, SAF are the most productive lever on the route to a CO2-neutral aviation field.
Lufthansa Team joins SBTi initiative

The Lufthansa Group has set formidable local weather safety objectives and aims to halve internet CO₂ emissions by 2030 when compared to 2019 and to accomplish a neutral CO₂ harmony by 2050. To even further specify these web targets, it has joined the so-known as Science Primarily based Target Initiative (SBTi) to convey its CO2 reduction path in line with the United Nations Paris Climate Settlement. Based mostly on scientific calculations, CO2 emissions will be repeatedly decreased with the enable of fleet renewal and optimization, enhanced operational performance and the use of SAF. The official validation will consider put in 2022.
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