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  • A report on how operational efficiency measures can reduce fuel consumption and lower aircraft CO2 emissions.

  • This report identifies interventions to improve operational efficiencies that could deliver carbon savings in aviation in the near to medium term.

  • A summary of research related to decarbonising aviation with recommendations on areas industry, academia and government should prioritise for further activity.

  • This monitoring and evaluation framework shows how decarbonisation activities in UK aviation could contribute to economy-wide achievement of net zero by 2050.

  • A cost analysis of potential measures to reduce emissions in sectors outside aviation, which could be used to help address the aviation sector’s net emissions.

  • A collaboration between DfT and Aerospace Technology Institute (ATI) updating what we know about future aircraft types and their fuel efficiency assumptions.

  • Demonstrates the development of job growth potential calculators across 9 net zero policy areas.

  • Analyses the understanding of non-carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from aviation and evaluates methods to measure their impacts.

  • Provides a cost-benefit analysis and dataset for the sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) revenue certainty mechanism.

  • Detailing the carbon emissions of general aviation activity, including future opportunities and costs to support the sector's decarbonisation.

  • An independent report and government response regarding the UK's potential for producing sustainable aviation fuels (SAF).

  • Summary of progress made delivering the transport decarbonisation plan.

  • This independent economic research covers the impacts of potential aviation carbon pricing policies on carbon leakage and the competitiveness of the UK aviation sector.

  • Updates to the Department for Transport’s aviation model.

  • Independent review of the Independent Commission on Civil Aviation Noise (ICCAN).

  • Review of the technology, trialling and deployment needed for a 2050 net zero carbon transport system and used to create the transport decarbonisation plan.

  • Study researching the benefits and issues of creating of a multi-modal hydrogen transport hub within the UK and specifically the Tees Valley area.

  • Assessment of the cost and potential impact of measures to reduce carbon emissions from UK aviation.

  • Research estimating the economic impacts resulting from changes to the nights flights regime at Gatwick, Heathrow and Stansted airport.

  • Research about attitudes to aviation noise.