What’s the Long-Term Plan to Decarbonize Aviation?

Legal Planet: Environmental Law and Policy 2026-06-03

Summary:

Cover of a policy report titled “E-Fueling Flight” from UC Berkeley, with an airplane flying over green palm trees against a blue sky. Icons for climate, water, oceans, and land use are shown on the upper right.How can we decarbonize airplane flights? It’s a “hard to abate” sector of the economy, given that the usual transportation solutions like hydrogen or batteries will likely not work for long-distance flights, given their physics.  Instead, some advocates and policymakers are betting on carbon-neutral electrofuels (or “e-fuels”) as an alternative to fossil jet fuel. E-fuels …

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Authors:

Chloé F. Smith

Date tagged:

06/03/2026, 18:05

Date published:

06/03/2026, 10:58