Sustainability and Environment
Clean Sky initiative still facing some major delays
Europe’s aerospace industry is blaming the European Commission for major delays in the Clean Sky joint technology initiative (JTI), a significant aerospace

Europe’s aerospace industry is blaming the European Commission for major delays in the Clean Sky joint technology initiative (JTI), a significant aerospace research program for greener aviation. The Commission retorts that it is just doing its job–spending taxpayer money diligently–and declines to accept sole responsibility for the delays.

JTIs are a new kind of public-private program for research in the European Union. “JTIs are new instruments for better integrated private-public partnerships,” said the European Commission spokeswoman for science and research. Clean Sky is a {1.6 billion ($2.1 billion) JTI, with the industry and the Commission sharing the cost equally.

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