Barry Chaired this EAC session on Net Zero Aviation & Shipping. The first panel consisted of:
Matt Gorman, Director of Carbon Strategy, Heathrow Airport
Glenn Llewellyn, Vice President, Zero Emission Aircraft, Airbus (virtual)
Hannah Tew, Director of Air Mobility, Connected Places Catapult
Val Miftakhov, Founder & CEO, Zero Avia
To this panel, Barry questioned Mr Miftakhov about Zero Avia’s (and the world’s) first ever hydrogen powered flight, as well as pressing him on their future ambitions. Barry also questioned Mr Llewelyn on Airbus’s ambition for net-zero commerical flights and asked the panel about the prospect of guilt-free air travel in the future.
The second panel consisted of:
Tim Johnson, Director, Aviation Environment Federation
Leo Murray, Director of Innovation, Possible
To this panel, Barry focused one the Jet Zero strategy and demand management. Barry questioned this panel on whether they were surprised whether that the Government failed to include demand management in its Jet Zero strategy and whether there is an argument in increasing aviation tax provides any meaningful support to decorbanising the industry.
You can watch Barry’s contributions below.