The “Clean Sky”-JTI will demonstrate and validate the technology breakthroughs that are necessary to make major steps towards the environmental goals sets by ACARE - Advisory Concil for Aeronautics Research in Europe - the European Technology Platform for Aeronautics & Air Transport and to be reached in 2020:

• 50% reduction of CO2 emissions through drastic reduction of fuel consumption
  
• 80% reduction of NOx (nitrogen oxide) emissions 
  
• 50% reduction of external noise

A green product life cycle: design, manufacturing, maintenance and disposal / recycling

The “Clean Sky”-JTI will be one of the largest European research projects ever, with a budget estimated at €1.6 billion, equally shared between the European Commission and industry, over the period 2008-2013. This public-private partnership will speed up technological breakthrough developments and shorten the time to market for new solutions tested on Full Scale Demonstrators.

Source: www.cleansky.eu; http://cordis.europa.eu/