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Sustainability is a collective responsibility, and Air France-KLM is committed to playing its role. The Group supports the adoption of ambitious environmental targets, advocating for an industry-wide transformation that ensures a global level playing field.
Air France-KLM's ambition is to reduce its Green Greenhouse Gases (GHG) emissions and contribute to limiting the increase in the global average temperature to 1,5°C above pre-industrial levels, in line with the Paris Agreement. This ambition is aligned with the International Civil Aviation Association’s (ICAO) long-term global aspirational goal of net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. To achieve this ambition, the Group has worked out a Transition Plan with levers including the renewal of its fleet, the use of SAF, the continuous improvement of its operational measures and inter-modality.
The Group is gradually replacing its fleet, investing massively in new-generation latest technology aircraft that consume up to 25% less fuel than an equivalent-sized previous-generation aircraft.
Air France-KLM progressively replaces fossil fuel by SAF, an alternative to regular aviation fuel (fossil-based kerosene). The Group selects only SAF whose sustainability is proven and certified by independent, reliable bodies like the RSB (Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials) or the ISCC+ (International Sustainability and Carbon Certification) to guarantee that they do not compete with the human or animal food chain, are not produced from palm and reduce GHG emissions by at least 65% over their entire lifecycle.
We are putting in place programs for GHG reduction across all the divisions of the Group. The focus areas of the programs are related to flight trajectory optimization, fuel policy, ecopiloting, aircraft performance, and onboard weight reduction.
Thanks to strategic partnerships with railway operators, we offer customers intermodality services to increase the possibilities of combining lower GHG emissions through alternative modes of transportation.
