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The government will continue to support “justified” airport expansions while working to make the UK’s aviation sector net zero by 2050.

Ministers have pledged £273M to further the cause of futuristic air transport initiatives such as flying taxis, electric planes and rapid-infrastructure-assessment drones.

This time last year, the government published its long-awaited Transport Decarbonisation Plan.

London City Airport has returned to expansion plans which were put on ice in 2020 due to the impact of Covid-19.

Wholesale aviation decarbonisation rests on new technologies some years away from scaled up implementation, so the built environment sector must do what it can to accelerate the decarbonisation of airports now.

Airport owners and operators need to plan for the delivery and storage of hydrogen now if they are to be ready to fuel hydrogen-powered aircraft by 2035, according to research by Jacobs.

A High Court judge has thrown out a legal challenge mounted against the expansion of Southampton Airport.

A group of NGOs has written to aviation minister Robert Courts calling on the government to withdraw its policy support for airport expansion.

Campaigners against the expansion of Bristol Airport have been granted a hearing in the High Court later this year.

A High Court ruling on whether the decision to grant planning permission for the extension of the runway at Southampton Airport was unlawful is expected in the coming days.