Delta to spend $30m to offset most of its 2020 impact on climate

Delta said hursday it would spend more than $30m to offset 13m metric tons of carbon emissions over 10 months last year as part of its pledge to help combat climate change. The Atlanta-based company said its medium-term goal is to replace 10% of its jet fuel, which is currently refined from fossil fuel, with sustainable aviation fuel by the end of 2030. Delta also said it cut emissions by retiring more than 200 older aircraft early in 2020 as it dealt with a plunge in demand from the coronavirus pandemic. Replacement planes will be 25% more fuel-efficient, the US airline said. In February 2020, Delta announced plans to invest $1b over the next decade in initiatives like offsets, sustainable aviation fuel and carbon sequestration that would limit the impact of global air travel on the environment, the first airline to make a commitment of that scale. That followed moves in Europe by easyJet to offset emissions on all its flights and by BAand Air France to do the same on their domestic flights.<br/>