Drax Group CEO responds to Sustainable Aviation report

Will Gardiner comments on ‘Carbon Road-Map: a Path to Net Zero’

Large modern aircraft view of the huge engine and chassis, the light of the sun

“Today’s Sustainable Aviation report highlights the crucial role negative emissions technologies like bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) will play in removing carbon from the atmosphere and helping important sectors of the economy like the aviation industry become net zero carbon.

Drax Group CEO Will Gardiner

Drax Group CEO Will Gardiner in the control room at Drax Power Station near Selby in North Yorkshire. Click to view/download.

“That is why the UK urgently needs a strategy to invest in and scale up these technologies in the 2020s and 2030s, supported by a regulatory framework that enables us to achieve our long-term carbon targets at the lowest possible cost.”