Lufthansa Group announced a significant expansion of its portfolio of climate protection projects, utilized in its offerings offerings enabling passengers to contribute to more sustainable flying, with an increasing emphasis on permanent carbon removal, and technology-based solutions.
Alongside the expansion of its portfolio, Lufthansa Group revealed that passengers contributed to climate protection projects covering more than 710,000 metric tonnes of CO2 in 2025, increasing by approximately 20% year-over-year.
Lufthansa launched a “Green Fare” offering in 2023, providing passengers with more sustainable travel offerings through contributions to CO2 reductions through the use of Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) and the support of climate protection projects.
With the new update, Lufthansa said that has expanded its climate protection portfolio to 14 projects, which include “avoidance projects” that prevent CO2 emissions outside of the airline industry – such as energy-efficient cookstoves or modular biogas plants – and “removal projects” that actively remove CO2 from the atmosphere and store it over the long-term. Removal projects used by the airline company include nature-based projects such as reforestation, and technology-based approaches such as biochar.
Lufthansa said that the share of projects that permanently remove CO2 from the atmosphere has been doubled and now accounts for around 20%. The company said that it is also now including Direct Air Carbon (DAC) Capture and Storage in the portfolio for the first time.
For its new climate protection project portfolio, the Lufthansa Group said that it is working with companies including myclimate, First Climate, Ceezer, Senken, Climeworks and 1PointFive. The company added that it is working with partners such as Deep Sky, Airbus and Climeworks to advance the development, promotion, and utilization of technology-based solutions such as DAC.
Lufthansa has set a target to achieve a neutral CO2 balance by 2050, and an ambition to halve its net CO2 emissions by 2030, compared to 2019.
Nina Sproedt, Head of Sustainability at Lufthansa Group, said:
“Climate protection projects, which complement our own emission reduction measures, are an important building block on the path to more sustainable aviation and the achievement of our climate goals. With our carefully curated portfolio, we are increasingly focusing on technology-based projects that enable long-term CO₂ sequestration. In this way, we are contributing to the further development and scaling of these technologies.”
