International conference
En route to sustainable aviation:
from climate science to mitigation
policies
- 19 and 20 November 2026
- Météo France International Conference Centre, Toulouse
Faced with the climate emergency, commercial aviation is at a crossroads: it must achieve its decarbonisation goal by 2050 while also reducing the impact of its ‘non-CO2' effects
(including contrails, aerosols and nitrogen oxides), seen as substantial despite some uncertainties.
This international conference, co-organised by Météo & Climat and the Air and Space Academy, in partnership with Météo France, will offer a unique overview on the question of mitigating the climate impacts of aviation, including current scientific knowledge, traffic growth scenarios and mitigation strategies based on scientific, industrial and operational innovations.
Why take part?
The conference will provide a platform for dialogue and multidisciplinary exchange between all stakeholders (researchers, economists, industry representatives, European agencies and R&D partnerships, operators and public decision-makers) with the aim of defining components on an ambitious mitigation pathway. Presentations, posters and high-level discussions will enable participants to confront scientific knowledge of impacts with possible mitigation strategies at an industrial and operational level, and to measure the importance of cooperation between the scientific community, the industrial and operational ecosystem and public authorities.
On the programme
Updating scientific knowledge
On the climate impacts of aviation (emissions and ‘non-CO₂’ effects), forecasting persistent contrail formation, etc.
Technological innovations and industrial challenges
Engines and aircraft of the future, sustainable fuels, monitoring of contrails and the conditions conducive to their formation
Climate optimisation of flights and air traffic management (ATM)
TM’s contribution to decarbonisation, scaling up contrail avoidance trials
Public policy
Current legislative frameworks and support programmes for research and innovation, and prospects for change by 2030
A strategic meeting, in the context of preparations for the EU’s 2028–2034 budget
The conference will include a series of panel discussions and Q&A sessions with the floor which will explore the industrial, operational and political conditions required to steer and achieve an ambitious, credible and economically viable European mitigation pathway.