Latam seeks to reduce carbon emissions by adopting new technologies and increasing the use of sustainable fuel

Like most airlines in the world, Latam Airlines has ambitious plans to reduce carbon emissions. The mission to reduce emissions is not an easy one, being one of the biggest challenges the company will face in the coming years. The key to a greater contribution to the environment lies in the type of fuel that the company's planes use. company use. 

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As the Reportur website showed, the Can Airlines seeks to be carbon neutral by 2050 and reduce carbon emissions by 50% by 2030. alternative should be used, like sugar cane. 

Roberto Alvo, CEO of Latam, in an interview with DF Chile, highlighted the ability of the Brazil in the production of sugar cane:The amount of sugarcane waste is enough to supply the entire national airline sector. Today there are small biofuel production plants, but it is still at a very embryonic stage.”, He highlighted. 

Still in Chile, the CEO pointed out that there is still a green hydrogen alternative: “In Punta Arenas, Chile, there is a small project that we are looking at, which is the generation of a type of oil that can be further refined, and there are also projects announced by the Ministry of Energy, which are more ambitious, but more for the end of the decade."  

Latam's project for the coming decades  

Latam has a big goal ahead of it, which will only be achieved through hard work and investments. To help curb climate change by reducing carbon emissions, the company intends to work with the shift to sustainable fuels and the adoption of new aviation technologies.