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Aircraft and flight CO2 emissions

Want to report flight emissions and inform policies with confidence and precision? Cirium’s EmeraldSky, delivers >99% accurate CO2 insights, audited by EY and accredited by the Rocky Mountain Institute for the Pegasus Guidelines. Trusted by Impact on Sustainable Aviation and airports and corporates worldwide.

Flight Emissions Review

As the aviation industry faces growing expectations to decarbonize, accurate and independent emissions data is no longer a nice-to-have — it’s essential.

We’re delivering emissions intelligence – data and insights that empower informed decisions across the aviation industry. Highlights include:

  • Global Airline Category Rankings
  • Regional Performance
  • Route-Level Improvements
  • Operational Insights

Gain comprehensive operational insights supporting industry-wide efficiency and actionable intelligence. Download the full report now!

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Cirium’s emissions estimates are endorsed by FTSE 100 company, RELX for business travel, and praised for accuracy by American Airlines and Virgin Atlantic.

Corporate Travel and Sustainability
  • Identify sustainable air travel providers by market
  • Improve compliance with environmental disclosure regulations related to business travel
  • Enable travellers to make more informed decision about sustainable flight options.
  • Improve investor appeal through improved ESG performance and reporting.
  • Optimize spending on carbon offset and elimination initiatives ​
Air Finance
  • Enhance benchmarking flight emissions across fleets of owned aircraft, as well as comparisons between different airlines.
  • Improve environmental disclosure and reporting related to leased fleets.
  • Identify opportunities to reduce customer emissions through fleet utilization and potential fleet upgrades.
  • Improve investor appeal through ESG performance and reporting.
Airlines
  • Benchmark emissions from owned, leased, and partner aircraft.
  • Highlight unique sustainable flight options.
  • Find ways to cut emissions, like using efficient aircraft or replacing older models.
  • Help travelers book with awareness of sustainable choices.
  • Show investors the commitment to Net Zero goals.
  • Tackle public skepticism on flight emission data accuracy.
Airports
  • Improve environmental disclosure and reporting related to departing and arriving flights for regulatory compliance.
  • Influence more use of sustainably efficient aircraft through optimized landing fees and incentives
  • Benchmark flight emissions across other airports.​
Aerospace – Manufactures, MROs and the After-market
  • Improve environmental disclosure and reporting related to fleets.
  • Identify opportunities to reduce emissions through fleet utilization and potential fleet upgrades.
  • Benchmark CO2 emission improvements of fleet and equipment upgrades
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Customer Testimonials

Reducing aviation’s emissions will require partnership among the airlines, our suppliers and our customers – and it’s important to build those partnerships on sound emissions data and calculations. Cirium brings deep aviation expertise to the table on this important topic, and the approach they’ve taken considers numerous variables of an aircraft and its operations.

Jill Blickstein,
Head of ESG
American Airlines

Accurate measuring, monitoring, and forecasting of CO2 emissions is critical as we target and monitor progress to Net Zero 2050, allowing us to better understand our environmental impact. Cirium is leading the way in this field, building data and forecasting capabilities that are the most accurate we have seen to date, as verified against our own historical fuel burn and emissions data.

Holly Boyd-Boland,
Vice President, Corporate Development
Virgin Atlantic

With travel being such a large category of emissions, these types of relationships are key to leading sustainable business travel programs of the future. I am thankful for Cirium’s willingness to engage and explore a personalized solution with us.

Kara Brayton,
Assistant Vice President, Head of Corporate Travel Management
Zurich Insurance – NA

Reducing aviation’s emissions will require partnership among the airlines, our suppliers and our customers – and it’s important to build those partnerships on sound emissions data and calculations. Cirium brings deep aviation expertise to the table on this important topic, and the approach they’ve taken considers numerous variables of an aircraft and its operations.

Jill Blickstein,
Head of ESG
American Airlines

Accurate measuring, monitoring, and forecasting of CO2 emissions is critical as we target and monitor progress to Net Zero 2050, allowing us to better understand our environmental impact. Cirium is leading the way in this field, building data and forecasting capabilities that are the most accurate we have seen to date, as verified against our own historical fuel burn and emissions data.

Holly Boyd-Boland,
Vice President, Corporate Development
Virgin Atlantic

With travel being such a large category of emissions, these types of relationships are key to leading sustainable business travel programs of the future. I am thankful for Cirium’s willingness to engage and explore a personalized solution with us.

Kara Brayton,
Assistant Vice President, Head of Corporate Travel Management
Zurich Insurance – NA

EmeraldSky delivers unmatched precision in CO2 emissions measurement, empowering stakeholders to scrutinize flight emissions with unprecedented detail.

Integrity

Independent, Verified and trusted

  • Cirium curates and processes all of it data inhouse​
  • Cirium is the leader in aviation data.​
  • EmeraldSky has been verified by airlines and broader industry to be up to 99% of actual flight emissions for a specified set of mission, aircraft and payload inputs.
Precision

Leveraging Cirium schedules, flight and fleet data

  • 920+ airline schedules updated 280,000 times a day
  • Over 25M updates across +600 live data sources daily
  • Fleet details for over 480K aircraft, 770 aircraft types and over 300 attributes per aircraft​
  • Rigorous data quality controls
Insight

Underpins Cirium’s flight emission analytics

  • Only provider of flight emissions data based on actual flight operations​
  • Accurate forecasted flight emissions leveraging advanced machine learning​
  • Emission measures by aircraft and flight are available in days not months​
  • Granular view of emissions by aircraft, flight, owner, operator, tonne of cargo and cabin/seat.​

Use fuel burn and CO2 emissions data you can trust

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