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Tailwinds build for sustainable aviation fuel

GreenBiz

As the aviation industry lobbies for sustainable jet fuel, new tax breaks could help lower the carbon footprint of business travel.

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The future of sustainable aviation fuel depends on the 2023 Farm Bill

GreenBiz

Sustainable aviation fuel is emerging as the most viable path forward for a decarbonized aviation industry, if the 2023 Farm Bill provides adequate funding.

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The RAF begins using sustainable aviation fuel on routine operations

Envirotec Magazine

The Royal Air Force has used a blend of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) with normal jet fuel on routine operations for the first time. Aviation currently accounts for nearly two thirds of fuel used across defence. An RAF Typhoon landing in Turkey. The RAF has been trialling different types of fuel since then.

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Amazon aims to clean up aviation

GreenBiz

Amazon aims to clean up aviation. The aviation sector in a pandemic has 99 problems. And if you look at the aviation industry's historical pledges to add in bio-based jet fuels, before the pandemic, it's fallen woefully short. DHL Express is using Neste's sustainable aviation fuel at SFO. . Katie Fehrenbacher. Logisitics.

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Electrofuels Are the Future: The Driving Force to Decarbonizing Heavy Transport

Speaker: Ayesha Choudhury - Senior Vice President, Head of Capital Markets at Infinium

However, some sectors are lagging behind and struggling to decarbonize more than others, including large-scale transportation like commercial aviation, shipping, and rail transit. With the first wave of the energy transition, renewable energy sources (such as solar and wind) have begun replacing coal power generation.

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UK Civil Aviation Authority Launches Hydrogen Working Group for Aviation

FuelCellsWorks

The UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has initiated a strategic move to further the adoption of hydrogen as a sustainable aviation fuel by forming a new working group. This group,

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Contrails study adds to aviation climate-impact fears

Envirotec Magazine

However, it also means they create contrails that take longer to dissipate – creating a warming effect for longer and a complicated trade-off for the aviation industry. This study throws a spanner in the works for the aviation industry. This means these higher-flying aircraft create less carbon emissions per passenger.

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