Flagship Research Panel: Solutions for Sustainable Aviation

Panel speakers

Christian Gollier TSE Research Faculty Director of the school TSE	Marc Ivaldi Professor of Economics Conference Director WCTR 2026	Sabine Klauke CTO & EVP Engineering Airbus	Thierry Poinsot Senior Researcher Institute of Fluid Mechanics

Main steps of the thread

00:00 - Welcome and presentation of WCTR by Marc Ivaldi
01:36 - Welcome address by Tae Oum, WCTRS President
05:44 - Christian Gollier’s introduction
07:29 - Question to Marc Ivaldi: Could you summarize for us what are the environmental challenges the aviation is facing?
15:57 - Question to Sabine Klauke: Could you tell us what is the roadmap to decarbonize aviation based on the technologies developed by Airbus?
26:25 - Question to Thierry Poinsot: Could tell us what are the challenges that engineers are facing in the development of technologies based on hydrogen and SAF to propel aircraft?
41:52 - Question to Sabine Klauke: Thierry Poinsot explained the difficulties in developing technologies based on hydrogen and SAF. To go beyond these technological frontiers, do we need in your view more public and private financial effort or more cooperation among industries or both?
53:44 - Question to Marc Ivaldi: From what we heard from Sabine Klauke and Thierry Poinsot, technological solutions for sustainable aviation available are on the way. What are the economic policies or tools that could boost them?
01:10:20 - Conclusion by Christian Gollier
01:11:41 - Conclusion by Lori Tavasszy, Chair of the Scientific Committee of WCTR Society