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Willie Walsh was unimpressed by the PM’s pronouncements on sustainable aviation fuel at Cop26, saying: ‘We need fuel companies mandated to produce it’
Walsh urges PM to fuel faster production of SAF
Iata chief calls for policies to incentivise fuel companies. Ian Taylor reports
Iata director general Willie Walsh hit out at prime minister Boris Johnson last week and called on governments to require fuel companies to produce sustainable aviation fuels (SAFs) “at scale”. Speaking at the Cop26 climate
conference in Glasgow, Johnson called a target of 10% of aviation fuel to be SAF by 2030 “pathetic”. Walsh said: “I’m not sure Boris
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because that is the UK government target. I’d like to think we would achieve more than that by 2030. [But] we need momentum. It’s not an issue of willingness on the part of airlines to use SAF. It’s an issue of willingness of fuel companies to supply it.” The first commercial flight using
SAF operated more than 13 years ago, but the amounts available to airlines remain tiny. Walsh said: “The tech is proven. We
know this fuel works and it’s a drop-in fuel so we don’t require modifications. It doesn’t need any new infrastructure. What we need is greater supply. “The industry has demonstrated
its willingness to use it. We need to see fuel companies provide it at scale, and that will deal with the other critical issue which is price. The price
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