British Airways is to purchase more than £9 million worth of innovative carbon removals credits, as part of accelerated climate change efforts. Hear more from British Airways at FTE Global, LA, 28-30 October 2024. British Airways, part of International Airlines Group – a Corporate Partner of the FTE Digital, Innovation & Startup Hub – has signed a deal to purchase more than £9 million worth of innovative carbon removals credits in the UK and overseas as part of a six-year agreement. The deal is part of an ambitious drive to accelerate the airline's climate change efforts between now and 2030. One ground-breaking scheme in Scotland will see CO2 emissions captured from whisky distilleries and repurposed into building materials. Another, spread across multiple locations in the UK, uses an enhanced rock weathering technique to lock away carbon for thousands of years.