Our News
18-Mar-2010 SustainAvia invited to speak at the 3rd Annual Eco-Aviation Conference in Washington D.C. in June 2010
07-Mar-2010 VerifAvia, a verification body of greenhouse gas for the aviation sector, has been established
07-Mar-2010 The Eurocontrol tool for small emitters is in process of approval
In The Press
28-Jun-2010 IATA criticizes lack of progress on volcanic ash issues in Europe [ATW]
28-Jan-2010 The solid business case for cutting carbon emissions [BusinessDay]
06-Dec-2009 The implications of the EU's ETS [Aircraft Commerce]
11-Oct-2010 ICAO members reach historic agreement on climate change [ATW]
12-Aug-2010 In a critical year for the Aviation EU ETS, European emissions fall in first half of 2010 compared to 2009 [GreenAir Online]
09-Aug-2010 EU ETS fears slow down aviation verification process [Flight International]
Team
Julien Dufour
Julien Dufour has over 14 years of experience in the aviation sector as consultant and airline manager. As an international aviation consultant, Julien has worked on aviation projects for airlines, airports, governments and financial institutions in over 30 countries worldwide on behalf of ICF SH&E, IATA Consulting and RDG-Solutions. For more information on Julien's consulting projects, please click here.
As consultant with SustainAvia, he participated in the preparation and implementation of EU ETS monitoring plans for numerous airlines and business jet operators worldwide. As an EU ETS Lead Auditor and the founder and CEO of VerifAvia, he verified himself 18 airlines and coordinated all other EU ETS verification audits conducted by VerifAvia.
Julien is currently involved is all three CleanSky projects: CARING, BASE and FRARS-2. Julien is also a private pilot, he is based in Paris and speaks English, French and Spanish.
Conferences:
- Trainer on Inclusion of Aviation in EU ETS Training Course, Istanbul, August 2011
- Moderator on Environmental Trading Schemes: Are you Compliant? at the European Business Aviation Convention and Exhibition (EBACE2011), Geneva, May 2011
- Speaker on ETS ROADMAP: STATUS UPDATE at the 25th Annual Geneva Aircraft Finance & Commercial Aviation Forum, Geneva, February 2011
- Speaker on The Road to EU ETS Verification: How to get ready, best practices & common mistakes at the 4th Flight Operations Conference, Amsterdam, Dec 2010
- Speaker on The EU ETS Verification Process, FNAM/DGAC Verification Workshop, Paris, 28 June 2010
- Speaker on EU ETS Verification: a legal perspective, 3rd Annual Eco-Aviation Conference, Washington D.C., 24 June 2010
- Speaker on Conclusion of EU ETS start-up year: implementation issues, IT, impact & way forward at the 3rd Flight Operations Conference, Amsterdam, Dec 2009
- Speaker on EU ETS Principles, Compliance and Impact at the NBAA 62nd Annual Meeting & Convention, Orlando, October 2009
- Conclusions of AF KLM OMNES seminar Impacts & Outlook of the Crisis on Air Transport, Paris-CDG, May 2009
Trainings:
- EEX: Spot Market training natural gas and EUA, London, July 2011
- External Lead Verifier (EU ETS), Reading, March 2010
- Green Aviation Airline ETS Masterclass, London, June 2009
- UK Environment Agency EU ETS Aviation Seminar, London, June 2009
- French CAA Aviation ETS Workshop, Paris, June 2009
Gary Cleven
Gary Cleven has over 20 years of international experience in the airline and aviation business including EU ETS for aviation, airline restructuring, network, fleet planning, revenue management and IT systems projects in more than 20 countries worldwide.
Gary started his career at Canadian Airlines and then moved to Dallas to work for American Airlines on hub restructuring, fleet planning and IT projects. Since then, he has worked on numerous aviation consulting projects with Lufthansa Consulting, Lufthansa Systems, Sabre Consulting, SH&E, Boeing and Airbus.
As consultant with SustainAvia, Gary assisted several airlines in the preparation and implementation of the EU ETS monitoring plans. As an EU ETS Lead Auditor with VerifAvia, Gary verified more than 26 airlines worldwide reporting to various competent authorities.
For more information on Gary's consulting projects, please click here. Gary is currently involved in the CleanSky FRARS-2 Project.
Conference:
- Speaker on Trends In Fuel Efficiency Improvement Programs & Industry Impact at the Bombardier Airline Executive Seminar, Montreal, September 2011
Trainings:
- Auditor Training Course for the Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels' Global Sustainability Standard, Kuala Lumpur, September 2011
- External Lead Verifier (EU ETS), Reading, March 2010
- French CAA Aviation ETS Workshop, Paris, June 2009
Tobias Konik
Tobias is a young aviation expert who works for the aviation industry as verifier and economic researcher.
Tobias is in charge with the small emitter verification at VerifAvia. Since joining VerifAvia in January 2011, he performed EU ETS verification audit of nearly 300 operators from 40 countries and reporting to 20 different EU competent authorities. Besides his work as EU ETS lead auditor, he pursues his research activities in the scope of CleanSky. During his first participation in CleanSky, he focused on present and future environmental constraints and their impact upon operational and strategic decision making of airlines (Project CARING). Tobias currently works on the realization of his second CleanSky project, Project BASE, which sets out to analyze the effects of emissions and noise restrictions on business jet operators.
Tobias studied Economics in Bayreuth, Paris and Berlin, from where he graduated as M.Sc. end of 2010. At the time of university, he conducted meaningful economic research in the field of Environmental Economics and Infrastructure & Network Economics. Tobias came to aviation when writing his master's thesis about the inclusion of aviation into the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS). He analyzed the impact of the allocation mechanism on the airline's competitiveness and the economic and environmental performance of the scheme.
Tobias is based in Paris and is fluent in English, French and German.
Publication:
- The effect of ETS on aircraft purshasing, Regional International