Climate Policy Engagement Analysis
Climate Policy Engagement Overview: The International Coordinating Council of Aerospace Industries Associations (ICCAIA) has strategic engagement with climate policy, with both positive and negative positions in 2023-25. ICCAIA supported net-zero CO2 emissions for aviation in 2050 and generally supported policies incentivizing the production and uptake of Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAF).
Top-line Messaging on Climate Policy: ICCAIA supported a long-term aspirational goal (LTAG) through ICAO of net-zero CO2 emissions from international aviation by 2050 and attended disclosed it attended COP28 without taking a clear position in its Paris Agreement in its 2023 Annual Report published in March 2024. However, the chair of ICCAIA, Jan Pie, supported the Clean Industrial Deal while emphasizing carbon leakage and competitiveness concerns from the Fit for 55 package and advocated for EU regulations to align with global measures through the Destination 2050 Roadmap published in February 2025.
Engagement with Climate-Related Regulations: ICCAIA supported the US SAF blenders tax credit and the EU SAF mandate in a September 2023 position paper and generally supported policies incentivizing the production and uptake of SAF in a September 2023 public statement. ICCAIA also appeared supportive of Singapore’s SAF mandate in its February 2025 winter newsletter. Alongside other industry associations at ICAO, in May 2023 ICCAIA presented their Working paper 23, published in May 2023, which generally supported policies incentivizing the production and uptake of SAFs, but emphasized competitiveness and carbon leakage concerns while stressing the need for policy to be "technology-agnostic". The Chair of ICCAIA, Jan Pie, further opposed any increase to SAF and e-fuel targets under ReFuelEU and advocated for a gradual SAF supply increases of the SAF target under ReFuelEU through the Destination 2050 Roadmap, published February 2025.
ICCAIA generally supported free emissions allowances based on SAF usage in a September 2023 report. Through signing the Destination 2050 Roadmap in February 2025, the Chair of ICCAIA, Jan Pie, supported continued free emissions of SAF allowances until 2030 or after, advocated for carbon removal to be included under the EU ETS by 2026 and supported the re-investment of EU ETS revenues in clean technologies research and upscaling of SAF. He also supported a carbon border adjustment mechanism for SAF.
ICCAIA supported a global 2030 5% CO2 emissions reduction target through the use of SAF in its 2023 Annual Report, published in March 2024, and its December 2023 Newsletter.
Positioning on Energy Transition: ICCAIA generally supported the electrification of aviation but also an increased use of SAF and hybrid propulsion in its 2024 Annual Report, published in April 2025. ICCAIA supported an increased use of SAF through Working papers 23, 24, 25, 33 and 34 submitted to ICAO in November 2023. More negatively, Jan Pie, the chair of ICCAIA opposed the EU tax on jet fuel through the Destination 2050 Roadmap, published in February 2025.
InfluenceMap collects and assesses evidence of corporate climate policy engagement on a weekly basis, depending on the availability of information from each specific data source (for more information see our methodology). While this analysis flows through to the company’s scores each week, the summary above is updated periodically. This summary was last updated in Q2 2025.