👨💼 Brian Moran sat down with Finlay Asher of Safe Landing, during Aircraft Leasing Ireland (ALI)’s “Global Aviation Sustainability Day” conference in Dublin in November 2024: https://safe-landing.org/ali-conference-2024
🌳 Brian is the chief sustainability officer of The Boeing Company and serves as a member of the Boeing Executive Council. He’s responsible for advancing the company’s approach on aerospace sustainability priorities, driving shared awareness of sustainability trends, opportunities and risks to guide company decision-making and global impact.
✈️ Boeing are one of the largest aviation companies in the world, so it was exciting to interview somebody in such a senior sustainability position.
📹 Watch the full 20min video:
🗣️ We discussed:
- What motivated Brian’s interest in aviation and sustainability
- Projects that Boeing are working on today to progress sustainable aviation
- Boeing’s vision for the sustainable future of air travel
- Brian’s advice to young professionals interested in contributing to a more sustainable future for our industry
✅ Check out:
- Boeing’s CASCADE tool: https://cascade.boeing.com
- Boeing + RSB’s “SAF” feedstock studies: https://rsb.org/2024/09/03/rsb-launches-study-with-boeing-on-sustainable-feedstock-potential-in-southeast-asia
- Boeing Electric and H2 aircraft concepts: https://investors.boeing.com/investors/news/press-release-details/2022/Boeing-Unveils-Model-to-Show-Best-Routes-to-Zero-Carbon-Future/default.aspx
- Electrified Powertrain Flight Demonstration Project: https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/armd/iasp/epfd
- Boeing’s X66 ‘truss braced wing’ flight demonstrator: https://theaircurrent.com/technology/boeing-nasa-sfd-gtf-x-66a
- Cambridge ‘Whittle Lab’ Aviation Impact Accelerator report: https://report.aiazero.org
🛫 We’re on the look out for more sustainable aviation leaders to share their visions for the future of air travel with us – if this is you, please get in touch!
👩✈️ If you’re an aviation worker interested in collaborating to rapidly reduce the climate impact of our sector, please join us at our next Community ‘check-in’ on Thurs 30th Jan 2025: https://safe-landing.org/community-check-in