Sustainability is one of the most important goals of aviation which will be made apparent in Geneva next week when over 300 stakeholders will aim to fortify concepts, thoughts, and prospects to create a sustainable future for aviation at the 6th Aviation and Environment Summit. While conference talking points will focus on aviation’s socio-economic value [...]

The typical view of aviation most passengers receive is either through the cabin window at 36,000 feet or face to face with the behemoths through the departure lounge window at the airport. Its true this is a typical representation of aviation, however there are less well known, and exotic, forms of aviation which are worth [...]

Great news today as KLM Airlines become the first in the world to fly a passenger flight on biofuel. Flight KL1233, from Amsterdam to Paris Charles de Gaulle, used a 50% mix of biofuel from used cooking oil on the flight, which comes just a couple of weeks after the interim certification for biofuels was [...]

Another new biofuels project has been announced at yesterday’s European Aerodays – Airbus, Iberia and the Spanish Government will be undertaking a long-term project to establish a sustainable aviation biofuel supply in Spain. “Biofuels are a must for aviation to achieve our industry’s ambitious CO2 reduction targets. In fact, we believe that biofuels should primarily be [...]

At ATAG, one of our main tasks is to highlight the great work being done across the aviation industry to reduce emissions and foster innovation in environmental technology. One area in which a lot of progress is being made is sustainable aviation biofuels – it is why a number of us are here in Rotterdam [...]

One of the announcements that has just been made at the World Biofuels Markets is from Boeing and the Ecole Polytechnic Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) – a research and innovation centre located just down the road from us in Switzerland. The announcement? The creation of the Sustainable Biomass Consortium. Although it all sounds a bit [...]

There has been a lot of talk on this blog and elsewhere about the prospects for aviation biofuels, but little mention about the possibility of feedstocks to be grown in Europe. That all changed yesterday with the announcement of a project to develop sustainable aviation biofuel feedstock production in Romania. This project, being led by [...]

President Obama’s trip to Brazil over the weekend generated a lot of attention from Latin American and US press, but very little mention was made of one part of his trip – the agreement signed between the US and Brazil to work together on the development and deployment of aviation biofuels. The aviation part is [...]

One of the key tasks of observer organisations like ours at UN Climate Talks is to educate delegates on the work we are doing to reduce emissions. Tonight, we hosted a so-called ‘side event’ on aviation biofuels. Speakers included Kevin Welsh from the Air Transport Association of America, Amy Bann from Boeing Commercial Airplanes and [...]

For the first time yesterday, an Airbus A320 flew on biofuel – its energy supplied by 50% biofuel from the jatropha plant and 50% normal Jet A1 fuel. Importantly, the test flight took place in Brazil, using Brazilian-grown jatropha and with Brazil’s national carrier TAM Airlines. It was the first such test flight to take [...]