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\u201cBusiness aviation has long made sustainability a priority,\nand we have made tangible progress,\u201d said NBAA President and CEO Ed Bolen.\n\u201cOver the past decade, we have redoubled our commitment to reducing the\nindustry\u2019s already-small carbon footprint, and key to that has been the\ndevelopment and use of sustainable fuels. This summit marks the next step in\nfocusing on how to accelerate the fuels\u2019 adoption and use.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
GAMA President and CEO Pete Bunce explained, \u201cWe have an\nopportunity to bring all stakeholders together to identify ways to increase the\nuse of SAF. The summit will continue to educate our industry on this safe,\ndrop-in fuel and communicate the existing enthusiasm in the business aviation\ncommunity for environmental stewardship through use of sustainable fuel.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On hand for the summit announcement were leaders from the\nInitiative of the Business Aviation Coalition for Sustainable Aviation Fuel.\nThe coalition includes GAMA and NBAA, as well as the European Business Aviation\nAssociation (EBAA), the International Business Aviation Council (IBAC) and the\nNational Air Transportation Association (NATA).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSAF is the main solution to our environmental challenges \u2013 along\nwith other means of emissions reduction, use of the fuels will be key to\nmeeting our industry\u2019s environmental goals,\u201d said EBAA Chair Juergen Wiese.\n\u201cThis summit will provide another important opportunity to demonstrate that\nbusiness aviation continues to take seriously its responsibility for reducing\nclimate-changing emissions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cBusiness aviation will meet its global, long-term carbon\nemissions reduction goal through a multi-pronged approach involving technology,\noperational improvements, ATM modernization and a global market-based measure,\u201d\nsaid IBAC Director General Kurt Edwards. \u201cSustainable aviation fuel is going to\nbe among the most critical technologies to help us meet the goal. The\ntechnology is proven \u2013 now is the time for governments and industry to increase\nsignificantly efforts to encourage production and use of SAF. The summit and\nour recent demonstration events are concrete demonstrations of industry\u2019s\ninterest in using SAF. We continue to urge governments at all levels to\nimplement positive incentive policies to facilitate greater production of\nsustainable aviation fuels.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
NATA Chief Operating Officer Tim Obitts stated, \u201cNATA is\nconstantly hearing from our members about their desire for the use of SAF. The\naviation business community is at the forefront in taking proactive measures\ntowards building a sustainable future. This summit is a continuation of the SAF\ncoalition\u2019s aim to educate the industry and wider public about the quality and\nsafety of SAF, as we seek its widespread adoption.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The new summit builds upon previous industry initiatives\naimed at promoting SAF use, including the first-ever public demonstration \u2013 in\nJanuary 2019, at California\u2019s Van Nuys Airport \u2013 which highlighted the fuels\u2019\nviability, safety and benefit toward aviation-emissions reduction. That\ndemonstration day was followed by a similar event, held in May 2019, at TAG\nLondon Farnborough Airport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In conjunction with the summit announcement, Bolen noted\nthat the SAF coalition has produced a new, online capability for people in the\nindustry to pledge their support for the fuels. The pledge is available at\nfutureofsustainablefuel.com, an industry website sponsored by the SAF\nstakeholder coalition. The pledge reads, in part: \u201cI support SAF, and I urge\nleaders in government and across the industry supply chain to do so as well.\nThe increased availability of these fuels will dramatically strengthen the goal\nof business aviation to reach its long-term carbon-reduction goals.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Leaders of the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) and General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) today announced an unprecedented gathering, to be held early next year in Washington, DC, aimed at accelerating the availability and use of sustainable aviation fuels (SAF). The new Business Aviation Global Sustainability Summit, scheduled to take place in March 2020, was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14090,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14089\/revisions\/14090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}