Air Transport Action Group
Budget
€10 — €0
EP Access
0
accredited persons
Staff
2
0.2 FTE
EU Grants
None
Mission & Goals
ATAG promotes a united global vision for aviation and provides a collaborative environment to foster the exchange of ideas, joint approaches to common issues and a united voice to ensure governments, industry and civil society can work together to progress the sustainable development of air transport. ATAG: - develops studies to provide reliable data on aviation's contribution to job creation, trade, tourism, community lifelines and humanitarian disaster response; - establishes working groups to address solutions to key challenges; - minimises long-term environmental and climate impacts of aviation and air transport connectivity; - advocates for coordinated action on strategic issues; mobilises joint statements; - provides expert contributions to governmental and UN processes. - develops an array of communications resources about aviation's sustainability activities; - organises educational and information-sharing sessions at events and other fora for a variety of audiences.
EU Legislative Interests
Aviation sustainable development, climate policy, how aviation can reach net-zero, sustainable aviation fuels, social and economic benefits of aviation, infrastructure development.
Communication Activities
ATAG provides a collaborative environment to foster the exchange of ideas, joint approaches to common issues and a united voice to ensure governments, industry and civil society can work together to progress the sustainable development of air transport. ATAG specifically plays an active role in bringing together its partners worldwide to improve communications about aviation's goal of net-zero carbon by 2050. In October 2022, the aviation sector became one of the first in the world to adopt a global long-term net-zero carbon goal. It achieved this by aligning aviation behind a common approach to decarbonisation and then encouraged governments to adopt the same goal. In the same year, ATAG enlisted help from the next generation of aviation leaders, asking young aviation professionals to send a video message to the world's governments through social media to adopt a long-term goal that would serve their future jobs and connect the world. ATAG created a #FlyNetZero campaign with the participation of 65 young aviation professionals, creation of three main videos in English, French, Spanish and Mandarin. ATAG provides access to a wide range of information via its websites (www.aviationbenefits.org and www.atag.org) and publications and factsheets which provide a global perspective on air transport sustainability and climate issues as well as the social and economic benefits of aviation. These include: - Whitepaper: International aviation levies, 2025 - Aviation’s climate action framework, 2025 - Understanding CORSIA, 2025 - Aviation: Benefits Beyond Borders, 2024 - Aviation and climate change, 2024 - Aviation industry ICAO 80th anniversary declaration, 2024 - Climate action: addressing contrails, 2024 - Tracking aviation efficiency, 2024 - Beginner's guide to sustainable aviation fuels, 2023 - How blended finance can support the aviation energy transition in emerging and developing economies, 2023 - Accelerating adoption of SAF: financing and related issues, 2023 - What will it cost to get to net-zero carbon for global aviation, 2022 - Aviation industry position on the development of a long-term climate goal at ICAO, 2022 - Aide Memoire: aviation climate action, 2022 - Fly Net Zero signature video outlining the push for a climate agreement at ICAO, 2022 - Declaration video featuring 47 young aviation professionals, 2022 - Commitment to Fly Net Zero, 2021 - Aviation: Benefits Beyond Borders, 2021 - Fueling net zero, 2021 - Waypoint 2050, 2nd edition, 2021 - Sustainable Aviation Fuel metrics, 2021 - Pathways to aviation decarbonisation, 2021 - Sustainable Aviation Fuel, 2020 - Aircraft CO2 Standard, 2020 - Aviation Climate Solutions - Climate Action Takes Flight ATAG also organises highly-respected global events to unite its partners behind a common objective to address aviation's climate change impact, to raise the importance of investment in sustainable aviation fuels so that aviation can reach its net-zero goals and to promote the aviation industry's sustainability objectives. ATAG also coordinates aviation's representation at the UNFCCC's COP meetings.
Interests Represented
Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Organisation Members
See our web page: http://www.atag.org/membership/our-members.html
Commissioner Meetings
No recorded meetings with EU commissioners.