Less Carbon and Energy
We aim to Leave Less to minimize the environmental impact of our operations – less carbon in our atmosphere, and less waste in our land and water.
Our climate ambition
Air Canada’s climate ambition includes a long-term aspirational goal of net-zero greenhouse (GHG) emissions from all its global operations by 2050, as well as absolute midterm GHG net reduction targets by 2030 for both its air and ground operations, compared to its 2019 baseline. As we pursue this aspiration, Air Canada is focused on both short- to mid-term actionable targets through a series of five-year period implementation plans, the first such plan being effective from 2021 to 2025.
For additional information relating to Air Canada’s climate action initiatives, please see Air Canada's TCFD* disclosure as well as additional information relating to our climate goals.
*Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures
20%
from air operations compared to 2019 baseline by 2030
30%
from ground operations compared to 2019 baseline by 2030
$50 million
for low-carbon technologies to accelerate decarbonization such as SAF, new aircraft technologies or carbon reduction and removal technology.
Air Canada’s climate ambition builds on its existing value streams and activities and is based on four key carbon reduction pillars: fleet and operations, innovation, sustainable aviation fuels and renewable energy, and carbon reductions and removals.
Fleet and operations
With our fleet renewal program, we will continue our efforts to deploying more modern and fuel-efficient aircraft. We will continue to take into consideration and integrate climate factors into route and fleet planning and are working towards improving fuel efficiency.
On the ground, we expect to continue working towards phasing out carbon-intensive ground equipment and plan on further advancing electric vehicle use and seeking other electrification opportunities.
Innovation
As technology continues to emerge over time, we will evaluate the viability, safety and performance of new electric, hydrogen or hybrid propulsion technologies and will look for other innovative opportunities elsewhere in our operations.
Sustainable aviation fuel and renewable energy
To further our work on mitigating our greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, we are investing in sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and other low-carbon aviation fuel.Air Canada firmly believes that a concrete action plan is required in Canada to establish a competitive investment climate and to capture the economic added value of Canadian produced SAF.
On the ground, we are actively evaluating the practical applications of renewable energy sources, such as biogas and renewable electricity and energy transition measures.
Carbon reductions and removals
We are exploring carbon negative emission technologies and other direct emission reduction and removal strategies. We are also further developing our regulatory carbon offset compliance programs and customer offerings.