Boeing’s new deal with Charm Industrial, following Airbus’s earlier agreement with Occidental’s 1PointFive, signals a subtle but important shift in how the aviation industry plans to clean up its climate tab. Sustainable aviation fuel still does most of the heavy lifting on paper – but durable carbon removal is becoming the sector’s backstop of last resort.
A different kind of aviation deal
When Boeing signs a big contract, the headline numbers usually involve aircraft deliveries, defence hardware or engine parts. Its latest agreement, announced in mid-November, looks very different: up to 100,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide,
