SAF Handbook
This handbook provides guidance to address the main challenges that airlines are faced with when it comes to buying SAF.
The handbook shares a comprehensive overview of SAF, detailing its dual components: the physical fuel and its associated environmental benefits.
It examines key regulatory frameworks that incentivize SAF adoption and delves into the specifics of SAF procurement and accounting, covering pricing, agreements, contracts, and required certifications for environmental claims.
In this video, Daniel Chereau, one of the authors of the handbook, talks about its purpose, the target audience and the wider need to increase knowledge about sustainable aviation fuel.
Table of Content
1. Introduction
IATA’s five Net Zero Roadmaps, published in June 2023, describe the potential trajectories, covering 130 milestones, to meet aviation’s goal of bringing air transportation to net zero carbon emissions by 2050. In all the scenarios and over that full time horizon, Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAF) play the largest role in aviation’s decarbonization.
2.1. What is SAF: The Fuel Component
SAF can be mixed with CAF and once blended, certified to the same standard as conventional jet fuel.
2.2. What is SAF: The Environmental Attributes
SAF can be certifiably produced in conformity with sustainability criteria.
3. Regulatory Frameworks and Certification Schemes
Government policy has an instrumental role to play in the deployment of SAF.
4. SAF Accounting
Once SAF enters the jet fuel supply chain, it is imperative to have a robust accounting mechanism in place for airlines to be able to track and claim the environmental benefit of their SAF purchases.
5. SAF Procurement
The SAF industry is complex and fast-changing, which presents challenges for airlines looking to start procuring SAF. Third-party entities can assist airlines in obtaining intelligence on the SAF market and where to source supply.
6. Stakeholder Engagement
The recommendations in this chapter can help ensure involvement and buy-in from both internal and external stakeholders.
7. Additional Resources
IATA constantly releases and updates numerous resources to assist airlines in their quest to reach net zero.