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Renewable Fuel Crucial to Business Aviation's Sustainability Goals

The price of petroleum-based jet-A has fallen because of the Covid-19 crisis, but the industry still looks to SAF use to reach environmental goals.

Despite the harm inflicted on the aviation industry by the Covid-19 crisis, environmental sustainability still remains on the minds of many along with the use of sustainable aviation fuel.

By Curt Epstein • Business Aviation Services Editor

April 22, 2020

Environmental sustainability is among the stated goals of the aviation industry, which is one of the few industries to have developed internationally agreed-upon carbon-emission-reduction standards for both equipment and operators. In 2009, the business aviation community, through its representative organizations, announced three goals to mitigate its effect on climate change: achieve carbon-neutral growth by 2020; improve fuel efficiency by 2 percent per year from 2010 to 2020; and reduce CO2 emissions by 50 percent by 2050 relative to 2005.

The industry described four pillars it believed will help it reach those targets: technology improvements in airframes and engine efficiency; the modernization of air traffic control; operational changes, such as adopting single-engine taxiing and streamlined flight planning; and the use of renewable fuels.

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