Announcements from airlines on sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) commitments are coming thick and fast in the run-up to the COP27 climate summit, which takes place later this month in Egypt.
British Airways and Air France-KLM are the latest carriers to publicize their efforts on this front, with the former announcing on 2 November an agreement to accelerate SAF production in the UK and the latter revealing in late October the signing of two multi-year SAF contracts.
However, the aviation industry faces criticism from environmental campaigners who argue that the sector’s decarbonization strategy should focus on reducing the number of flights in addition to relying heavily on fledgling and yet-to-be-developed technologies.
BA has signed an agreement with sustainable fuel company LanzaJet and agricultural waste conversion specialist Nova Pangaea Technologies. The goal is to accelerate an initiative known as Project Speedbird, which aims to produce SAF in the UK from agricultural and wood waste.
LanzaJet received another boost last month when Breakthrough Energy – a company founded by Bill Gates in 2015 to accelerate clean energy transition – awarded a $50 million grant to its planned Freedom Pines Fuels alcohol-to-jet SAF plant in Soperton, Georgia.
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