A lifelong aviation enthusiast who joined&nbsp;AIN&nbsp;in 2007, Curt came to&nbsp;the publication&nbsp;from the broadcast industry where he was a national science and technology television reporter and producer. He writes on the FBO field, aviation finance, and sustainable aviation and occasionally contributes to&nbsp;AIN&nbsp;sister publication&nbsp;Business Jet Traveler. Curt was a member of the AINtv reporting staff that won the 2008 Aerospace Journalist of the Year award for Best Airshow Daily. That same year, he was a finalist for another AJOYA award. He earned an AJOYA for Best Business Aviation Submission in 2018 and was a finalist in that category in 2021. He received the National Air Transportation Association’s&nbsp; Aviation Journalist Award in 2012 and won a Pegasus Sapphire Business Aviation Award for outstanding journalism in 2021.
Before joining AIN, Curt worked with&nbsp;Consumer Reports’ television division, CRTV, and for several local television news staffs. An honors graduate of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, he earned a master’s degree in broadcast journalism from Boston University in 1995. Curt lives in New York State with his wife and two young sons.

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World Fuel Services unveiled its myWorld Decarbonize tool this week at NBAA’s Schedulers and Dispatchers Conference to help customers achieve their sustainability goals.&nbsp;The tool is part of the fuel provider’s book-and-claim system, enabling operators to purchase sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) benefit credits even when the actual product is unavailable at that location.
World Fuel is a certified trader under the leading industry authorities, ensuring that the SAF it distributes meets specific sustainability requirements. It also provides customers with the documentation to demonstrate compliance with regulations and traceability of the fuel’s environmental attributes from production to runway.
MyWorld Decarbonize uses a CORSIA life cycle analysis approach to assess fuel burn carbon emissions via a proprietary calculator that accurately accounts for the fuel’s production and combustion phases. It allows users to easily purchase the appropriate SAF certificates to counter those emissions at the point of sale.
“The launch of the myWorld Decarbonize tool will play a crucial role in enabling our supply and trading,"&nbsp;said Brad Hurwitz, the fuel provider's s-v-p of supply &amp; trading.“This tool supports our customers in their journey towards net-zero emissions by making lower carbon options easy to buy.”
SAF is viewed as the industry’s best near-term option for lowering its carbon footprint. In its neat, unblended form, SAF can reduce life cycle emissions by up to 80% versus jet-A.

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