News / Willie Walsh: 'carbon emissions are the fossil fuel billionaires' problem'

Willie Walsh. Photo: IATA

Fuel producers must produce sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and help fund the transition to low-carbon energy, said Willie Walsh, IATA’s director general, as he lambasted those that had “made billions” out of fossil fuels, but failed to invest in sustainable solutions.

He added that inefficiencies in aviation fuel had contributed to emissions and that, while IATA had beefed-up its climate targets to net zero by 2050, the burden was not one airlines could, or should, have to fund alone.

“Fuel producers have ...