Industry Insights: Aviation Briefing

whitePaper | March 3, 2022

Aviation and aerospace connect people, cultures, and businesses like no other form of transport. Aviation directly contributes to the UN Sustainable Development Goals and plays an immense role to improve and transform people’s lives across the globe.

whitePaper | February 22, 2023

impact’s goal is to accelerate aviation’s transition to net zero. To do this, impact plans to leverage the responsibility and capabilities of aircraft financiers to ensure that well-defined sustainability targets are firmly anchored in loan or lease agreements. The metrics required for this should also improve the accuracy and clarity of reporting on the sustainability of the financiers’ investment and loan portfolios.

whitePaper | January 22, 2020

Civil aviation is an incredibly safe mode of transport. Year-on-year statistics referenced by the International Air Transport Association (IATA) Annual Safety Report demonstrate this. Considering the forecast of double-digit growth over the next 20 years and the new infrastructure needed to manage capacity and services – and as indirectly evidenced by high levels of consumer confidence documented in widely available growth analysis – continued efforts today will clearly be paramount tomorrow to maintain the safety promise.

whitePaper | April 13, 2021

Air transport plays a vital role in economies. The number of flights increased by approximately 38% between 2010 and 20191 and is still expected to resume a strong long-term growth globally despite the COVID-19 crisis2 , albeit below 2019 levels for the years to come. This can mainly be attributed to strong forecasted growth in developing countries3 , especially in middle class populations, driving the need and market for greater local and global connectivity within these regions.

whitePaper | December 30, 2021

American companies are developing innovative groundbreaking space activities, such as on-orbit servicing, space-based manufacturing platforms, and commercially developed space stations, some of which expect to be operational within the next two years with more following in the next decade.

whitePaper | January 26, 2022

Aviation is a hard-to-decarbonize sector of the transport industry due to the stringent mass and volume requirements for aviation fuel. The high energy content of liquid jet fuel, both per unit mass (specific energy) and per unit volume (energy density), makes it difficult to replace. Significant emphasis has been placed on drop-in Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAFs) to reduce emissions without sacrificing aircraft performance. But SAFs emit carbon dioxide (CO2) when combusted (carbon capture during production reduces life-cycle emissions) and their uptake has fallen short of expectations due to their high cost, limited supply, and concerns about the land-use impacts of biofuels.