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Sustainable aviation fuels (SAF)

Head and shoulders photo of Nora Lovell Marchant, Vice President of Global Sustainability for American Express Global Business Travel

5/10/2022 Comment / Nora Lovell Marchant

Could blockchain and book-and-claim systems help to achieve rapid upscaling of SAF?

Industries across the globe are striving to find solutions to help reach net zero targets – and this is no different for the corporate travel sector. Nora Lovell Marchant, Vice President of Global Sustainability for American Express Global Business Travel (Amex GBT), discusses how a global book-and-claim system could enable sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) to slash aviation emissions.

Sustainable aviation fuels (SAF)

11/6/2025 News

Europe’s largest e-fuels plant has opened and the SAF market is taking off in the Americas

Europe’s largest e-fuel facility has started operations in Germany, marking a step forward for sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) in the region. Meanwhile, Syzygy’s electrified biogas-to-SAF project has broken new ground in Uruguay, FedEx has launched its largest SAF programme in the US, and new data from the EIA shows US SAF output is ramping up.

Aviation fuel

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25/3/2026 Comment / Andrew Symes

The case for waste carbon fuels for the future of aviation

Human society is facing significant challenges. The challenge we are solving is ensuring that future generations have access to carbon-based aviation fuels with far lower impact on the Earth’s climate. Aviation is not going away. The question is not whether people will continue to fly, but how we enable flight without placing a huge burden on future generations by leaving them with an increasingly large cost to live comfortably. The solution is to use fuels derived from waste carbon, either biomass waste or CO₂, writes Andrew Symes, Founder and CEO of low-carbon fuel spin-out OXCCU.

Sustainable aviation fuels (SAF)

Aerial view of planes around Heathrow terminal building

25/2/2026 News

Heathrow ramps up SAF ambition as UK government moves to de-risk supply

Heathrow Airport has unveiled an enhanced sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) incentive scheme targeting 5.6% SAF use in 2026, as the UK government advances plans for a contracts-for-difference-style revenue certainty mechanism (RCM). Meanwhile, SkyNRG has begun construction of a flagship production plant in the Netherlands. Together, these announcements signal a tightening alignment between demand-side ambition at major hubs and emerging supply-side policy frameworks designed to de-risk investment in SAF capacity.

Green hydrogen

25/9/2024 News

Spain sets its sights on green hydrogen and SAF

Spain is looking to establish itself as a leading producer of green hydrogen in Europe, as well as becoming a European hub for the development of sustainable aviation fuels, according to two separate new reports. Meanwhile, a new BP-Iberdrola partnership is to build the country’s largest green hydrogen project in a move that will help decarbonise BP’s Castellón refinery and see it transition into an integrated energy hub.

Energy policy

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20/9/2023 News

European Parliament backs plans to boost renewable energy and SAF uptake

The European Parliament voted last week to boost the deployment of renewable energy and encourage the use of sustainable aviation fuels (SAFs), in line with the bloc’s Green Deal, REPowerEU, and Fit for 55 policy plans. Meanwhile, European Commission (EC) President Ursula von der Leyen announced a new ‘wind power package’ aimed at tackling challenges faced by the European wind supply chain.

Sustainable aviation fuels (SAF)

Iain Gilmore, Senior Manager, Catalyst Technologies, Johnson Matthey (left) and David Kettner, President and General Counsel of Virent (right)

6/12/2023 Comment / Iain Gilmore,David Kettner

Take-off for sustainable aviation fuel?

Media coverage promoted the recent 100% sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) Virgin Atlantic trans-Atlantic flight as a milestone for the aviation sector. However, challenges in terms of scalability and cost remain. Iain Gilmore, Senior Manager, Catalyst Technologies, Johnson Matthey, and David Kettner, President and General Counsel of Virent, discuss the importance of the flight and how new technology made it possible.

Sustainable aviation fuels (SAF)

31/7/2024 News

SAF’s flight path to aviation decarbonisation

The aviation sector accounts for about 2% of global energy-related CO₂ emissions and requires significant transformation in a bid to cut greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Sustainable aviation fuels (SAFs) will play an important role if the industry is to achieve its net zero by 2050 target, although currently making up less than 1% of global aviation fuel supply. However, a number of new developments have been reported that aim to increase SAF production.

Climate change

5/2/2025 News

North Sea oil and gas field developments delayed while third runway at Heathrow airport proposed: a week in the life of the UK energy transition

Two national-scale UK infrastructure developments made headlines last week for opposite reasons, at the same time as the country also filed one of the world’s first NDC climate change reports.

Net zero / decarbonisation / energy transition

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EI Member only

11/10/2023 Feature / Bob Laslett,Toby Williams

Competing in the net zero race

In the race to net zero, the oil and gas sector has a significant role to play using its extensive experience for the transition to renewable power. Bob Laslett and Toby Williams of project engineering and consultancy firm Laslett International put the picture in focus.

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Could blockchain and book-and-claim systems help to achieve rapid upscaling of SAF?

Europe’s largest e-fuels plant has opened and the SAF market is taking off in the Americas

The case for waste carbon fuels for the future of aviation

Heathrow ramps up SAF ambition as UK government moves to de-risk supply

Spain sets its sights on green hydrogen and SAF

European Parliament backs plans to boost renewable energy and SAF uptake

Take-off for sustainable aviation fuel?

SAF’s flight path to aviation decarbonisation

North Sea oil and gas field developments delayed while third runway at Heathrow airport proposed: a week in the life of the UK energy transition

Competing in the net zero race