Carbon footprint - leading our industry
We are leading the climate change debate in our industry.
We feel it's vitally important that the airline industry is at the heart of the debate on climate change. This is why we were a founding member of an environmental group called Sustainable Aviation, the aim of which is to find ways of limiting the impact airlines have on the environment.
Sustainable Aviation
Together, we promote technology that helps limit the impact of aircraft and we are also campaigning for inclusion of aviation in an international agreement based on carbon trading which will help tackle carbon emissions from aircraft the world over. As one of the members of Sustainable Aviation, we've helped devise a shared method for working out carbon emissions from aircraft and for measuring fuel efficiency.
We are also fully behind the group's commitment to halve carbon emissions (per passenger km) of new aircraft in 2020, compared to new aircraft in 2000.
Our commitment
The most senior people at British Airways are taking a leading role in the climate change debate.
- CEO Willie Walsh, is the only person within the airline industry to be a member of the Confederation of British Industry climate change group.
- Chairman, Martin Broughton, is a member of the Gleneagles Dialogue Steering Board which advises governments around the world on their climate change policies.
Find out about how we're leading the industry in research and development.