Environmental Responsibility

• operating our facilities in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations in order to protect the health and safety of our employees, surrounding communities and the environment;

• being a leader improving environmental quality by minimizing waste and emissions, reusing and recycling, reducing the use of natural resources and preventing pollution;
• reaching our goal of carbon emissions reduction and to drive out solid waste from our manufacturing processes;
• integrating environmental considerations into business planning and decisions, including design, procurement, production, facilities management and product support;
• promoting a workplace in which all employees are properly trained to comply with applicable environmental laws and regulations, meeting environmental program goals, and fostering a sense of personal responsibility for protecting the environment;
• working with our customers to meet their environmental needs and goals consistent with the company’s environmental compliance and management programs;
• supporting existing and upcoming ISO 50001 registrations to help business units conserve resources through more efficient energy management; and 
• adhering to the monitoring and disposal procedures detailed in the U.S. Department of the Navy's NT-20-1 Environmental and NT-20-2 Occupational reports as a company authorized by the U.S. Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program to perform work involving radioactive material.

Because we are a government contractor, many Scope 3 emissions attributable to our company under relevant protocols, both upstream and downstream, are driven by policy choices made by our government customers. For example, armored fighting vehicles, which are built to specifications meant to ensure they function as intended on the battlefield, have emission consequences that are outside of our control. Similarly, government procurement requirements often prescribe certain attributes for the supply chain — such as participation of small business, country of origin and other requirements — that have consequences for greenhouse gas emissions from our supply base. For reasons such as these, we are currently unable to accurately measure or set a target for indirect emissions across our entire value chain.

Where feasible, we apply our established continuous improvement process to reducing Scope 3 emissions. Most notable are our efforts to reduce emissions throughout the lifecycle of the business jets we manufacture, with five clean-sheet aircraft models introduced over the past five years. We do this by focusing our research and development efforts on achieving better efficiency and fuel performance, ensuring our aircraft can seamlessly use sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) in their operations, and making carbon offsets and book-and-claim services available to our customers. Gulfstream has the most fuel-efficient fleet in the industry, producing the lowest carbon emissions per passenger mile of any aircraft we have previously delivered. 

Sustainable Aviation Fuel 

Both Gulfstream and Jet Aviation are expanding the availability of SAF for their customers, which has less sulfur and fewer fine particle pollutants than traditional Jet-A. Each gallon burned is meant to achieve a more than 80% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, on a lifecycle basis, relative to petroleum Jet-A.  The renewable fuel meets the strict sustainability requirements of both the U.S. EPA and the internationally recognized Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials (RSB).

Gulfstream was the first business jet aircraft manufacturer to use SAF in daily operations. Since 2016, Gulfstream has used SAF to power its Savannah-based demonstration aircraft, flying more than 1.7 million nautical miles on the blend.

Gulfstream also offers aircraft operators the opportunity to reduce the carbon footprint associated with their flights through an offset program. Participants pay an annual fee based on aircraft utilization to fund activities that generate an equal reduction in carbon emissions. Gulfstream does not charge operators a fee for administering its carbon offset service. Based on customers’ projected annual flight hours, offsets are invested in environmentally beneficial activities such as wind energy, forest management, farm power and recovery of landfill gas.

In 2021, Gulfstream became the first company to earn the National Aeronautic Association's Sustainable Wings certification, which now recognizes speed records that are set using SAF.

Anticipating our business aviation customers’ desire to use SAF to reduce emissions, Jet Aviation has led the market in offering access to sustainable fuel. We were the first supplier to offer SAF via a blended fuel option at Van Nuys Airport in 2019 and the first to offer SAF at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland in 2020. We have since uplifted more than 3.5 million gallons of blended SAF.

Jet Aviation also participates in a Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA), EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS), and other carbon offset and carbon reduction schemes to lower CO2 emissions for international flights to curb the aviation impact on climate change.

Both Gulfstream and Jet Aviation are signatories to the World Economic Forum’s Clean Skies for Tomorrow 2030 Ambition Statement. Among the program’s aims are accelerating the supply and availability of SAF so it can reach 10% of the global jet aviation fuel supply by 2030.