EU Policymakers Raise Concerns Over Slow Sustainable Aviation Fuel Production
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The EU has big goals for sustainable aviation fuel, but big goals alone won’t solve the problem. Without major investment to produce more SAF and make it cheaper, these targets may end up being more talk than action.
At the Destination Europe summit in Brussels on Thursday, European Union policymakers raised concerns about the slow production of sustainable aviation fuels (SAF), which could reduce carbon dioxide emissions from aircraft by up to 80%.
The EU requires airlines operating there to use at least 2% SAF, but the target is 70% by 2050. That’s an ambitious goal given current supplies of SAF.
"We won't achieve it when we want to,” said Nikolina Brnjac, member of European parliament and former Croatian minister of tourism.
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