2025 ICAO Aviation Climate Week
The 2025 ICAO Aviation Climate Week - Skyward Action: Realizing Aviation's Sustainable Future, will be held from 2 to 4 June 2025, at the ICAO Headquarters, Montréal, Canada, as a hybrid event with in‑person and online participation.
This three-day event will provide an opportunity for participants to be informed of the overall progress achieved and discuss the latest developments on all environmental topics, prior to the 42nd Session of the ICAO Assembly.
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Opening High-Level Panel – Skyward Action
Realizing Aviation’s
Sustainable Future: Three years after the Adoption of the LTAG
This Session will gather high-level speakers to take stock of the progress made in the
decarbonization of the aviation sector since the adoption of the LTAG. It will enable
stakeholders to highlight their expectat... -
How is the Industry Preparing For Net-Zero?
Moderator: Haldane Dodd, Executive Director, Air Transport Action Group – ATAG
• Justin Erbacci, Director General, Airports Council International – ACI
• Jan Pie, Chair, International Coordinating Council of Aerospace Industries
Associations – ICCAIA
• Michael Comber, Director of ICAO Relations, ... -
Session 1
Climate Impact Outlook and Progressing on Non-CO2 Aviation Emissions
Following up on the 2024 ICAO Symposium on Non-CO2 Aviation Emissions, this second part of Session 1, will focus on the way forward to encourage more data, measurements and trials to progress on understanding and mitigating non-... -
SKYTALKS: Edmonton International Airport
ESG and sustainability efforts at an airport: the example of Edmonton
International Airport Marion Chivot-Legris, Director of ESG & Sustainability
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Session 2
LTAG Monitoring and Accounting – Developing a Global Methodology to Monitor the Achievement of NetZero
The session will address the monitoring, reporting and accounting of CO2 emissions from technology, operations and fuels. The latest development on the ICAO LTAG Monitoring and Reporting methodo... -
Special Session – Shaping the Next Generation for a Sustainable Aviation
Suzanne Kearns, Founding Director of the Waterloo Institute for Sustainable Aeronautics, Associate Professor, Aviation, University of Waterloo
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Special Session - What’s the Latest on Supersonics?
- Moderator and ICAO Scene Setting: Daniel Langlois, Environment Officer - Noise, ICAO
• Dr. Sebastian Eastham, Senior Lecturer in Sustainable Aviation, Imperial College London
• Ivan de Lépinay, Senior expert on noise and standards, Environment & Sustainability
section, European Union Aviation S... -
Session 3
Aircraft Technologies to Mitigate Aviation Emissions
This session will bring forward the airframe and engine design concepts needed to tackle aviation climate impact. The ICAO efforts in making more stringent aeroplane CO2 emissions and noise design Standards will be at the center of discussions.... -
SKYTALKS: Boeing
Reflections from Japan: Collaboration Between Aviation, Policy, Energy &
Finance Sectors Moderator: Mildred Troegeler, Executive Liaison to ICAO,
Boeing
• Brian Moran, Chief Sustainability Officer, Boeing
• Ambassador Toshiyuki Onuma, Ambassador to the Delegation of Japan to ICAO -
Session 4
Building the ecosystem for electric- and hydrogen-powered
aircraft
What will electrification bring to aviation’s climate effects? The major benefits and challenges will be addressed for the entire sector, including through Advanced Air Mobility. When will Hydrogen take flight commercially? The se... -
SKYTALKS: Airbus
Julien Manhes, Head of Sustainable Aviation Fuel and Carbon Dioxide Removals, Airbus
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Session 5
Operations to Mitigate Aviation CO2 and Non-CO2 Emissions
Innovations in air traffic management improvements and ground operational measures to reduce CO2 and non-CO2 emissions will be presented.
Moderator: Bridget Donaldson, Sustainable Aviation Fuels Research Specialist, University of Oxford
IC... -
SKYTALKS: Thales
Operational Efficiency in Growing Traffic Areas: Challenges and Solutions Denis Bonnet, Vice President Research, Technology & Innovation, AVS Global Business Unit, Thales
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Session 6
Green Airports
Building upon the success of the ICAO seminar in April 2024, the session will cover innovations aimed at achieving zero carbon roadmaps for airports, as well as airport management, transition to cleaner energy sources and sustainable infrastructure.
Moderator: Jennifer Desharnais, ... -
SKYTALKS: 1pointfive
Caroline Jung, Carbon Solutions Manager, Carbon Engineering & Dan Williams, Senior Manager Aviation Policy, 1PointFive
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Session 7.1
Accelerating the Aviation Cleaner Energy Transition
Session 7.1 - Taking Stock of Increased SAF Production
This Session will showcase innovations and projects dedicated to the production, the distribution and the uptake of SAF, LCAF and other aviation cleaner energies. Moderator: Louise Burke, Vi... -
Session 7.2
Accelerating the Aviation Cleaner Energy Transition
Session 7.2 - High-Level Panel: Implementing the Global Framework for SAF, LCAF and Cleaner Energy
This Session will address the progress towards the implementation of the CAAF/3 Global Framework, including the latest policies and regulatory fra... -
Session 7.3
Accelerating the Aviation Cleaner Energy Transition
Session 7.3 - Implementation Support to Scale-up SAF
This Session will include the latest developments to support States and relevant stakeholders under the ICAO ACT-SAF programme, which is leading the way on investigating the feasibility of pro... -
Special Session – Celebrating Three years of the ACT-SAF Programme
Moderator: Jane Hupe, Deputy Director Environment, ICAO Introduction by Bafétigué Ouattara, Ambassador of Côte d’Ivoire to Canada & Mathilde Tannous, ACT-SAF Consultant With ACT-SAF Contributors:
• Dr. Verena Cozac-Brendl, Senior Expert – Aviation Strategy and Bilateral Affairs, Austrian Civil Av... -
Daily Kick-Off
Anshari Rahman, Director, Policy and Analytics, GenZero
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Session 8
High Level Panel – Unlocking Climate Finance
Needs and opportunities to finance aviation decarbonization projects, as well as the latest developments on the operationalization of ICAO FINVEST Hub, will be showcased.
Moderator: Anshari Rahman, Director, Policy and Analytics, GenZero
ICAO Scene Set... -
Special Session – ICAO x IRENA – Global Cooperation to Unlock Climate Finance
• Juan Carlos Salazar, Secretary General, ICAO
• Virtual Address by Francesco La Camera, Director General, International Renewable Energy Agency - IRENA 11
• Erick Ruiz Araya, Deputy Director, Project Facilitation and Support (PFS), International Renewable Energy Agency - IRENA
• Jane Hupe, Deput... -
Session 9
CORSIA – Implementing Aviation’s Global Market-based
Measure With CORSIA entering its first phase in 2024, the session will cover the latest on the implementation of the scheme, including monitoring, reporting, verification, and the emissions units being used to offset CO2 emissions.
Moderator: D... -
Special Session - Life after Flying
Discussing Aircraft End-of-Life and Recycling
Discussion of the Master of Ceremony with Brent Webb, President, Aircraft Fleet Recycling Association (AFRA) and Executive, CAVU Aerospace