Technical Stakeholder Committee – Sustainable Aviation Fuels

Chairs of the Technical Stakeholder Committee:

Ms Karen O’Brien (Gevo Inc.)
Mr Robert Boyd (IATA)

1st Technical Stakeholder Meeting

18 November 2021, Virtual Meeting

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More than 150 participants joined the inception of the Technical Stakeholder Committee “Sustainable Aviation Fuels”. The discussed topics covered the latest updates in the dynamically evolving policy framework around SAF such as CORSIA, the ReFuel EU Aviation proposal and the dedicated sub mandate for power-to-liquid SAF, written into law by the German Government.

Additionally, insights on how to scale up the SAF supply while sticking to the recently announced net-zero by 2050 target by the International Air Transport Association (IATA) were given by certain market participants (airline and large SAF producer).

Also, ISCC shed light on the importance of sustainability certification to ensure the very much-needed SAF ramp-up follows stringent sustainability standards.

The Technical Stakeholder Committee will now start its work under the two newly elected Co-Chairs Karen O’Brien (Gevo Inc., US) and Robert Boyd (IATA, Switzerland).

Presentations:

• Prof. Gernot Klepper, Chairman of the Board of ISCC e. V., Germany and
  Dr Norbert Schmitz, Managing Director, ISCC System GmbH, Germany
  Welcome Address
• Dr Norbert Schmitz, Managing Director, ISCC System GmbH, Germany
  Sustainability Certification of SAF
• Dr Bruno Silva, Environment Officer, Air Transport Bureau – International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), Canada
  Update on the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA)
• Grégoire Le Comte, Aviation Policy Officer, European Commission – Mobility and Transport Directorate General, Belgium 
  Update on the ReFuelEU Aviation Initiative
• Daniel Vilela Oliveira, Officer for Greenhouse Gas Mitigation in Transport and Biofuels – Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conversation and Nuclear Safety, Germany
  PtL SAF Subquota in Germany (Upload of presentation pending)
• Robert Boyd, Assistant Director Aviation Environment, MER – Aviation Environment, International Air Transport Association – IATA, Switzerland
  The Net-Zero 2020 Commitment by IATA
• Dr Henrik von Storch, Team Lead OPS – Deutsche Post DHL Group, Germany
  DPDHL Group’s Roadmap to Zero Emissions – Perspectives on decarbonisation of air freight (no download available)
• Henrik Erämetsä, Senior Advisor, Renewable Aviation Regulation – Neste, Finland
  Market Development and Regulation from the Perspective of a SAF producer
• Jesus Lopez Lopez, Biofuels Sustainability Manager – bp, United Kingdom
  Scaling up the SAF Supply Base

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