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June 21, 2017 – ACARE on behalf of its aviation stakeholders throughout Europe today launched the updated Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda to guide the future direction of public and private research towards the achievement of the ‘Flightpath 2050’ Vision.

February 21, 2018 - ASD joins 22 associations representing key European industrial research and innovation stakeholders to call on the EU Institutions to develop the next EU Research & Innovation Framework Programme (FP9) with an appropriate design and budget, at the level of the ambitions of the Renewed EU Industrial Policy Strategy.

June 26, 2018 - ASD welcomes progress made in June by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) Council regarding the implementation of CORSIA, the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation.

October 18, 2018 - ASD joins 131 organisations from across the EU to call on future Members of the European Parliament to put industry at the core of the EU's future.

On 24th January, EASA released their 2019 European Aviation Environmental Report; this comprehensive document provides an overview ofthe environmental performance of the aviation sector, updating EASA assessment conducted in 2016. The report acknowledges the effort of the sector to improve its environmental footprint, including through the continued introduction ofadvanced technologies.

November 13, 2019 - Members of Europe’s leading aviation associations have today published a joint paper setting out the principles to support the safe integration into European airspace of unmanned aircraft, or ‘drones’. 

June 24, 2020 - Can you really turn rubbish into jet fuel? Can potato skins power a plane? Can you capture carbon from the air and create fuel out of it? Here’s everything you need to know about Sustainable Aviation Fuels, and why they’re one of the ways the aviation industry is working to decarbonise flight.