{"id":416863,"date":"2021-05-26T09:16:01","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T03:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=416863"},"modified":"2021-05-26T09:47:22","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T04:17:22","slug":"singapore-airlines-group-pledges-to-achieve-net-zero-carbon-emissions-by-2050","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/singapore-airlines-group-pledges-to-achieve-net-zero-carbon-emissions-by-2050\/","title":{"rendered":"Singapore Airlines Group pledges to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI : The Singapore Airlines (SIA) Group has pledged to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050, the airline said in a statement on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Group\u2019s airlines, Singapore Airlines, Scoot and SIA Cargo, will use multiple levers to achieve this goal, which include investing in new-generation aircraft, achieving higher operational efficiency, adopting low-carbon technology such as sustainable aviation fuels, and sourcing for high quality carbon offsets, the company said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today, the most effective and direct way for an airline to materially lower carbon emissions is by operating a young fleet of aircraft. The SIA Group\u2019s fleet has an average age of under six years, making it one of the youngest in the world,&#8221; said Goh Choon Phong, chief executive officer of Singapore Airlines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI : The Singapore Airlines (SIA) Group has pledged to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050, the airline said in a statement on Tuesday. The Group\u2019s airlines, Singapore Airlines, Scoot and SIA Cargo, will use multiple levers to achieve this goal, which include investing in new-generation aircraft, achieving higher operational efficiency, adopting low-carbon technology such as sustainable aviation fuels, and sourcing for high quality carbon offsets, the company said. &#8220;Today, the most effective and direct way for an airline to materially lower carbon emissions is by operating a young fleet of aircraft. The SIA Group\u2019s fleet has an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[188,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-416863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}