SAF industry reports

Cambridge University has released a report outlining a five-year roadmap to help the aviation sector achieve net-zero climate impact by 2050. It outlines four 2030 Sustainable Aviation Goals—specific, actionable steps that must be initiated immediately and completed within five years if the aviation sector is to be on track to achieve net-zero by 2050.

In April 2023 Sustainable Aviation launched its updated Net Zero Carbon Road-Map which illustrates their view of a pathway to achieving Net Zero Carbon emissions from UK aviation activity by the year 2050. This Technical Report provides further rationale, assumptions and data used to compile the Road-Map. Therefore the Summary Report and this new document, the Technical Report, should be read in conjunction with each other.
Achieving net zero carbon for aviation will be harder than for most sectors, but it is achievable. It can only be delivered through an international approach, with substantial investment from industry, especially the aviation, energy, carbon removal and waste industries, and development of effective low carbon policies by the UK Government, working in partnership with the sector.

Powering aircraft by sustainable aviation fuels (SAFs) is a pathway to reduce the climate impact of aviation by lowering aviation lifecycle CO₂ emissions and by reducing ice crystal numbers and radiative forcing from contrails. While the effect of SAF blends on contrails has been measured previously, this paper presents novel measurements on particle emission and contrails from 100 % SAF combustion.

The latest Progress Report from Sustainable Aviation, sets out aviation emissions compared to projections, summarise key industry activity and set out their view of progress on the key policies needed from the Government.

A report from the World Economic Forum that provides a comprehensive set of key actions that stakeholders along the entire aviation value chain should take to move towards 10% sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) by 2030 and subsequent sector decarbonisation by 2050.