The UK Aerospace Technology Institute (ATI) has published a first-of-its-kind Non-CO2 Technologies Roadmap, setting out the aerospace sector’s collective ambition to improve understanding of these emissions and the technological advancements needed to address their climate impact.
The new roadmap comprises the fourth pillar of the UK Aerospace Technology Strategy, Destination Zero, intended to guide industry and government investment into aviation technologies. It also forms the industrial arm of the wider Aviation Non-CO2 Programme managed in partnership with the Department for Transport (DfT) and the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC).
The ATI Non-CO2 Programme, which will focus primarily on industrial research, will bring ‘academia, government institutions, and industry players together to translate theoretical concepts into viable technologies,’ explains the ATI. “As understanding of aviation’s non-CO2 impact grows, so too does the market opportunity and the UK is ideally positioned to unlock the technologies which will maintain global connectivity,” commented Gary Elliot, ATI CEO.
The programme will be funded through the ATI Programme which, since its launch in 2014, has invested £3.6bn ($4.5bn) of joint government and industry funding in ‘transformational aerospace technology research and development’. It is expected that grants (totalling up to £17 million, or $21.5 million) will be allocated to qualifying projects over the next four years.
ATI publishes UK’s first non-CO2 technologies roadmap
