{"id":6848,"date":"2020-10-18T10:39:37","date_gmt":"2020-10-18T10:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/erea.org\/?p=6848"},"modified":"2021-06-28T06:38:47","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T06:38:47","slug":"erea-position-paper-accelerating-transition-towards-climate-neutral-aviation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erea.org\/news\/erea-position-paper-accelerating-transition-towards-climate-neutral-aviation\/","title":{"rendered":"EREA Position Paper: accelerating transition towards climate neutral aviation"},"content":{"rendered":"
The COVID-19 crisis has hit the global aviation sector hard. It is expected that the recovery process of the sector will carry us over 2024 in order to achieve pre-corona levels, bankrupting many businesses along the way. Private investments in R&D will dry up, and we risk falling significantly behind on our ambition to become the world\u2019s first climate neutral continent.<\/p>\n
But not all is gloomy. Being Research and Innovation Institutes, we see exciting new innovations coming to be which will revolutionize aviation and the transport system it operates in. Fully autonomous aircraft, revolutionary configurations and new, climate-neutral propulsion mechanism are just few of the areas where significant changes can be expected in the next decades.<\/p>\n
To accelerate the transition towards a climate-neutral aviation in a post-corona world, we feel that several actions need to be taken:<\/p>\n