A MANDATORY MARKET FOR SAF CLOSER THAN EVER Karlijn Arts, SkyNRG, The Netherlands
There is momentum to raise the ambitions to the decarbonize the aviation, feedstock availability and a robust policy framework are needed to scale up SAF production.
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ven though the use of SAF grew the last couple of years, the global production is still far from the levels expected of it to be in 2021. Currently, SAF constitutes an estimated 0.05% of all aviation fuel used. To reach the sector’s established climate
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targets in 2030 and beyond, such as the carbon neutral growth trajectory set by CORSIA or pleas for reaching carbon neutrality around mid-century, there is a need for a significant scale-up of the availability and adoption of SAF as aviation’s conventional fuel.
One of the challenges for the SAF sector is the need for a robust policy framework that enables the aviation industry to look beyond the price gap between fossil and sustainable aviation fuel. To provide this policy direction various Member States have already
