Good news: an ever-increasing scale of sustainable aviation fuel use

The World Economic Forum recently published a new manual highlighting what it considers Sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) is steadily making its way into the public consciousness of climate solutions. Some of the most influential companies and institutions globally have committed to procuring and using SAF at an ever-increasing scale over the past year.

This is great news, as SAF is recognized as a critical lever toward making netzero aviation to reality. From policy allowances, agreement on a long-term aspirational goal for international civil aviation and significant offtake announcements from major airlines, fuel producers and corporate customers, the momentum for scaling up SAF has only grown.

The proposed SAF and SAFc accounting and reporting guidelines are designed to guide practitioners including greenhouse gas inventory specialists, auditors, fuel suppliers, air transport providers, and corporate buyers of SAF and SAFc. These guidelines offer detailed step-by-step instructions including recommended accounting calculation methods and reporting procedures, in the absence of formal global standards.

These guidelines are developed to ensure that each user of SAF and SAFc is assigned accurate and proportionate emissions and reductions.

White Paper “Sustainable Aviation Fuel Certificate (SAFc) Emissions Accounting and Reporting Guidelines”