Sustainable aviation fuel
Sustainable Aviation Fuel
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Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) is the name given to advanced aviation biofuel types used in jet aircraft and certified as being sustainable by an independent third-party. This certification is in addition to the safety and performance certification, issued by ASTM [1], that jet fuel is required to meet in order to be approved for use in regular passenger flights. The SAF certification verifies that the fuel meets ever-evolving criteria focussed around long-term global environmental, social and economic considerations. The academic European-based Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels (RSB) [2] NGO issued 'Principles and Criteria (Version 1&2)'[3] certification guidelines that sets the global benchmark standard on which the sustainability integrity of advanced aviation biofuel types seeking SAF status are judged. Leading airlines in the aviation industry, including Qantas [4], believe it important for any proposed aviation biofuels for commercial integration into airline operations actually be, and be publicly perceived as, independently certified sustainable biofuel in order to ensure their successful uptake, marketability and resulting industry-wide switch away from limited and polluting traditional fossil-based jet fuel, hence why they signed up to the SAFUG pledge. [5]
As Emissions Trading Schemes are emerging globally certain biofuels are likely to be exempt, "zero rated", by governments from having an associated carbon compliance liability due to their closed-emissions-loop renewable nature if they can also prove their wider sustainability credentials, and therefore be known as Sustainable Aviation Fuel. For example, In the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme it has been proposed by the Sustainable Aviation Fuel Users Group (SAFUG) that only aviation biofuels that have been certified as sustainable by the RSB would be zero rated [6]. This SAFUG proposal has been accepted. [7] SAUFUG is a group of interested airlines that formed together in 2008 under the auspices of Boeing Commercial Aiirplanes and in cooperation with support from NGOs such as Natural Resources Defence Council and RSB. Member airlines represent more than 15% of the industry, and all member CEOs have signed a pledge to work on the development and use of Sustainable Aviation Fuel. [8]
References
- ^ http://www.astm.org/SNEWS/SO_2011/enright_so11.html
- ^ http://rsb.epfl.ch/
- ^ http://rsb.epfl.ch/page-24929-en.html
- ^ http://www.qantas.com.au/travel/airlines/sustainable-aviation-fuel/global/en
- ^ http://safug.org/
- ^ http://www.safug.org/assets/docs/SAFUG_Brochure.pdf
- ^ http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/resources/documents/taxation/review_of_regulation_en.pdf
- ^ http://www.safug.org/information/pledge/
- http://rsb.epfl.ch/page-24929-en.html
- http://www.qantas.com.au/travel/airlines/sustainable-aviation-fuel/global/en
- http://www.safug.org/assets/docs/SAFUG_Brochure.pdf
- http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/resources/documents/taxation/review_of_regulation_en.pdf
- http://www.safug.org/information/pledge/
See also Aviation biofuel Aviation and the environment Sustainability
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