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SAF and Carbon Credits Provide Path to Sustainable Bizav Ops

With demands rising for sustainability and decarbonization across aviation, bizav needs to do its part to lower its environmental footprint.

By Matt Thurber • Editor-in-Chief

October 9, 2021

With demands rising for sustainability and decarbonization across aviation, the business aviation industry “should be proud, not shy” when it comes to doing its part, Dassault Falcon Jet CEO Thierry Betbeze said late last month at AIN’s first of four regional Building a Sustainable Flight Department Conferences.

While responsible for only 0.04 percent of global emissions, business aviation is nonetheless blazing a greener path with new fuels, technologies, and other efforts. But sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) is “critical” to emissions reductions, according to NBAA, National Air Transportation Association (NATA), and other aviation trade groups.

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