Tamarack Aerospace president Jacob Klinginsmith stressed the need for the aviation community to work urgently and collaboratively on sustainability initiatives, warning a panel hosted by the International Civil Aviation Organization that industry targets could be at risk without immediate cooperation.

ICAO had asked Tamarack to participate in the Pre-Stocktaking Sustainability webinar held last week to discuss current and upcoming technologies that aid in reducing fossil fuel usage and noise. The Pre-Stocktaking Sustainability webinar was a precursor to the ICAO Stocktaking Seminar that begins August 31.

“It is so important that we work together as a national and international industry, aggressively using any and all available current technologies to address the climate crises,” Klinginsmith said. “We cannot afford, as an industry and a planet, to wait any longer to begin development and actual large-scale implementation of carbon emission reduction.”

He reiterated the sustainability benefits emerging technologies such as Tamarack’s Active winglet can provide. “Retrofitting Active Winglets is a good way to break the ice of real-life carbon emission reduction to ultimately reach carbon neutrality. And when combined with other sustainability supporting options, we can synthesize and strengthen our approach to sustainability to obtain actual large-scale results,” said Klinginsmith.

The company had released a white paper for the 2021 Earth Day (April 22) noting the winglets, which are now installed on more than 130 Cessna Citations, adjust to turbulence, leveraging patented load alleviation and sustainability technology to reduce fuel usage up to 33 percent.

The paper further highlighted a case study conducted by Tamarack showing that some 1.6 billion tons of CO2 emissions could be eliminated by 2040 if the winglets were fitted to commercial narrowbody aircraft.

In addition to participating in the webinar, Tamarack was added to ICAO’s Sustainability Coalition, and Nicholas Guida, the company's chairman and CEO, submitted testimony to Congress on the need to consider all aviation technology related to combatting climate change.