Our Environment Policy

Boeing is committed to:

• Conduct operations in compliance with applicable environmental laws, regulations, and Boeing policies and procedures.
• Prevent pollution by conserving energy and resources, recycling, reducing waste, and pursuing other source reduction strategies.
• Continually improve our environmental management system.
• Work together with our stakeholders on activities that promote environmental protection and stewardship.

Commercial Aviation

Commercial Aviation and the Environment

Because air travel helps drive economic growth and prosperity and brings the people of the world closer together, Boeing and the aviation industry are growing. And as air travel expands around the world, Boeing is taking a leadership role to continue to reduce aviation’s environmental impact by reducing fuel use, greenhouse gas emissions and noise. This benefits our customers, their passengers, our employees and the planet.

Boeing also has a comprehensive environmental strategy that includes:

• Designing and building more fuel-efficient airplanes
• Improving gate-to-gate operational efficiency for customers
• Advocating for modernized air traffic management systems
• Developing sustainable aviation biofuel
• Reducing Boeing’s environmental footprint

Today’s airplanes are already 70 percent more fuel efficient and 90 percent quieter than the first jets. To make further progress, more than 75 percent of Boeing’s commercial research and development funding supports greater efficiency and environmental performance in our products, services and facilities.

• Boeing Commercial Airplanes and the Environment
• The Boeing ecoDemonstrator Program
• Boeing and Sustainable Aviation Biofuel Development
• Boeing named Eco-Company of the Year by Air Transport World
• Improving Environmental Performance Through Innovation

Research & Innovation

Boeing Research & Technology’s technicians, technologists, engineers and scientists collaborate with partners around the world to solve environmental challenges.

As the advanced central research and development organization of The Boeing Company, Boeing Research & Technology (BR&T) provides innovative technologies that enable the development of future aerospace solutions while improving the cost, quality, efficiency and performance of Boeing products.

This includes finding innovative solutions around the world to improve environmental performance.

From researching biofuels, fuel cells and hybrid electric propulsion to improving air traffic management, finding sustainable composite materials and exploring new chemical coatings that resist corrosion, our team of technicians, technologists, engineers and scientists collaborate with research and development partners around the world to solve today and tomorrow’s environmental challenges.

Boeing Research & Technology has also partnered and contracted with the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in researching both next generation and futuristic technologies and concepts that could make aerospace products more environmentally efficient.

Remediation

Each year, thousands of people visit Santa Susana in Simi Valley, Calif., to learn more about the site’s important place in history and experience firsthand its beauty and biodiversity.

Boeing’s remediation program is focused on using innovative approaches in cleanup efforts to ensure the protection of human health and the environment, coupled with the use of invaluable input from community members and environmental groups. This, combined with the guidance of leading environmental scientists and federal and state regulatory agencies, has led to great progress in cleaning up remediation sites. Boeing also often collaborates with wildlife and conservation organizations to restore habitat for the benefit of wildlife and the community.

• Duwamish Waterway
• Santa Susana