Aerospace protects and connects people, enables livelihoods and trade, provides humanitarian relief and national security and allows for human exploration of space.
At Boeing, we're dedicated to maximizing these benefits while reducing the environmental footprint of air travel. By collaborating with our customers and stakeholders, we're advancing sustainability goals that strengthen economies and secure the well-being of future generations.
Boeing’s Sustainable Flight Demonstrator completes key step toward design validation, setting up future tech breakthroughs.
Strategic partnership will foster supply of sustainable aviation fuel in the Nordics to help meet global demand.
Boeing works with local governments to restore the Lower Duwamish Waterway, repairing 20th century industrial contamination.
Air Transport Action Group (ATAG) released its latest report that provides a snapshot of the economic and social impact of the global aviation sector.
Boeing's newest airplanes are 20-30% more efficient than the in-service airplanes they replace.
Boeing is collaborating across industry on how to operate and fly more efficiently, which can reduce emissions by about 10%. This includes improving airplane retrofit and maintenance, fleet and airport operations, and flight and traffic management.
Boeing is shaping the future of sustainable aviation through research and technology development focused on unlocking the potential of sustainable fuels and renewable energy applications.
Boeing is investing in innovation and clean technologies for improved aerodynamic performance, increased propulsion and systems efficiency, reduced life cycle energy use and emissions, and the latest digital design, test and production capability.
We’re taking advantage of opportunities to reduce carbon emissions from getting into the atmosphere in the first place, investing in permanent carbon removals, and continuing to offset business travel emissions, increasing over time the proportion of permanent removals to traditional offsets in our portfolio.
To show how each of the above strategies can cut emissions and help inform the most impactful and effective ways to reach net zero by 2050, Boeing created the Boeing Cascade Climate Impact Model.
SAF is produced from renewable sources – like agricultural waste, animal fats, vegetable oils and municipal solid waste – and significantly reduces carbon emissions over the fuel’s lifecycle, making it a more sustainable alternative for powering aircraft.
Today, Boeing is focused on helping catalyze SAF scaling through (1) our testing, technology investments, and product compatibility work, (2) our own fuel use, and (3) industry partnerships and policy advocacy.
Throughout our history, Boeing has deployed a suite of demonstrators to test and validate new technologies, designs and renewable energy sources. By converging the knowledge of our stakeholders and accelerating innovation, we aim to reduce our carbon and non-CO2 emissions, noise, and impact on local communities while strengthening the safety of our products.
One of our most visible examples is our Boeing ecoDemonstrator program. For over a decade, Boeing's ecoDemonstrator program has accelerated innovation by taking promising technologies out of the lab and testing them in an operational environment to solve real-world challenges for airlines, passengers and the environment.
Boeing is focused on understanding and mitigating negative effects of non-CO2 aircraft engine emissions on climate change, including contrails and aviation-induced cloudiness.
Boeing is a pioneer in creating new technologies and solutions to ensure aerospace is sustainable for future generations.
Sustainable aerospace starts within our four walls. Below, we outline our four key strategies to advance sustainable operations:
We foster sustainable behaviors, innovation, and efficiency among our workforce, integrating sustainability into our Boeing Production System and providing training and recognition programs for developing sustainable habits.
We prioritize responsible resource use, implementing measures to reduce consumption and waste generation, and optimizing building and equipment performance to achieve our sustainable operations targets.
We are focused on improving efficiency, extending equipment longevity, reducing resource use, LEED certification, and achieving operational GHG emissions reduction targets primarily through renewable electricity.
We are preparing for the future by assessing and mitigating environmental risks as well as remediating our legacy environmental impacts.
Each year, thousands of people visit Santa Susana in Simi Valley, Calif., to learn more about the site’s important place in history and experience firsthand its beauty and biodiversity.
Boeing’s remediation program is focused on using innovative approaches in cleanup efforts to ensure the protection of human health and the environment, coupled with the use of invaluable input from community members and environmental groups. This, combined with the guidance of leading environmental scientists and federal and state regulatory agencies, has led to great progress in cleaning up remediation sites. Boeing also often collaborates with wildlife and conservation organizations to restore habitat for the benefit of wildlife and the community.
| Performance Area | 2025 Targets* | 2023 Progress (over 2017) | |
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Greenhouse gas emissions | Reduce emissions by 25% | 37% reduction |
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Energy | Reduce energy consumption (natural gas, other fuels and electricity) by 10% | 12% reduction |
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Water | Reduce water withdrawal by 20% | 19.5% reduction |
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Solid waste | Reduce solid waste to landfill by 20% | 28.6% reduction |
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Hazardous waste | Reduce hazardous waste by 5% | 24.9% reduction |
Below are resources to help enhance understanding on important sustainability topics.
Boeing’s current perspective on sustainability matters is reflected in the most recent Sustainability Report. Previous Sustainability Reports are included here for their historic value, consistent with Boeing’s culture of transparency and continuous improvement. Readers should refer to Boeing’s latest Sustainability Report for the Company’s current perspective.
