What the June 2026 EU Taxonomy ruling means for sustainable business aviation

On 24 June 2026, the EU General Court annulled the European Commission’s exclusion of aircraft manufactured for private or commercial business aviation from the EU Taxonomy’s “transitional” activities. The case was brought by Dassault Aviation, maker of Falcon business jets, after the Commission’s 2023 delegated regulation kept business aircraft manufacturing outside the sustainable finance framework. […]