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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Global energy and commodity price data provider Argus Media has introduced sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) emissions reduction indexes (ERIs), which enable aviation stakeholders to compare SAF economics with compliance and voluntary carbon market obligations.
The assessments and accompanying analytics provide an independent reference for SAF users to evaluate its regional competitiveness, aviation decarbonization costs, and the allocation of Scope 3 emissions reductions.
The ERIs normalize fuel prices on an energy equivalent basis using regional life cycle emissions assumptions and are published in U.S. dollars per tonne of carbon dioxide equivalent. Published daily, the assessments also calculate U.S. dollars per tonne of fuel to provide transparency into the underlying SAF pricing delta and support comparison with Argus’ physical SAF benchmark prices.
Additionally, the company has rolled out an Excel-based calculator tool that uses the published ERIs as a reference point. It allows subscribers to create company-specific views of procurement, compliance, and decarbonization strategies.
“Our new ERI assessments help aviation industry market participants understand more clearly the relationships between fuel pricing and steadily increasing mandated and voluntary carbon markets obligations,” said Argus Media chairman and CEO Adrian Binks. “Together with the calculator, they offer a transparent and independent means of establishing the cost of emissions reduction and help participants decide how to allocate SAF costs and environmental attributes between buyers and sellers, including Scope 3 emissions reduction agreements.”

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