Airbus boss says they’re too slow going green
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🗓️ 16 February 2024
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From the BBC World Service: Aviation was responsible for 2% of global carbon emissions last year, according to the International Energy Agency, and the industry is under pressure to develop greener engines. But the boss of Airbus, one of the world’s biggest airplane makers, doesn’t think progress is speedy enough. Plus, political drama and a tax investigation ahead of India’s elections and an exploration of dynamic pricing.
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| 0:00.0 | Airbosis Boss airs his discontent over how much progress they've made going green. |
| 0:07.0 | Hello, and you're listening to the Marketplace's Morning Report. |
| 0:09.2 | Live from the BBC World Service, I'm Leanna Byrne. |
| 0:12.2 | Good morning. Aviation is responsible for |
| 0:14.6 | around 2% of global carbon emissions, that's according to the International |
| 0:18.0 | Energy Agency, and the industry is under pressure to develop greener engines but is it going fast enough well the |
| 0:24.9 | boss of Airbus that's the world's biggest commercial airplane maker doesn't think so |
| 0:29.3 | Giom forry has been speaking to my colleague Felicity Hannah and she started by asking |
| 0:34.0 | if Airbus will hit its target of flying hydrogen power planes by 2035. |
| 0:39.6 | Yes, the technology will be ready. This technology is not a brand new technology. What is new is to bring it to commercial aviation. |
| 0:48.0 | There are three main areas where we need to be ready. is the product so the technologies and the |
| 0:54.9 | product then we have to deal as well with the new regulatory framework that needs to |
| 0:59.6 | be invented and put in place and we need as well the regulatory framework to certify a hydrogen plane. |
| 1:06.0 | Do you agree that perhaps one key way to reduce emissions will be for people to fly less? |
| 1:11.0 | No, I don't agree with this. Plains are fantastic modes of |
| 1:15.5 | transport, but we have the challenge of carbon and it's on us to find a way to |
| 1:19.8 | combine growth, demand for aviation with the constraints or with the urgency to address climate change and therefore |
| 1:28.0 | accelerating on decarbonization of aviation. |
| 1:31.0 | Ultimately, I want our children and grandchildren to be able to enjoy flying on the planet. |
| 1:36.0 | I think that's very useful and important for the human community living in peace together |
| 1:41.6 | on this planet. But we have to be very fast on |
| 1:44.6 | decarbonizing those products and that's what Airbus is very committed to delivering |
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