GBTA greets European Parliament’s addition of SAF in NZIA

Saturday, November 25, 2023

The Global Business Travel Association (GBTA) has greeted the European Parliament’s addition of Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAF) as a precedence expertise in the Net Zero Industry Act (NZIA) in the course of this week’s plenary meeting.

The NZIA is an essential section of rule that will be backing the positioning of manufacturing skills essential for decarbonization in the EU and aid realizing its motivated 2030 and 2050 climate objectives. As a foremost consumer of air transportation, the business travel community is aggressively backing the change to better aviation all through the European Union, by inspiring market demand for SAF.

A report says that SAF is emphasized as the most instant prospect to decarbonize air travel by providing a net decrease in carbon discharges equated to fossil-based jet fuel.

Scaling and installing SAF at the rapidity required to realize 2030 and 2050 climate objectives must be coordinated with important funding in SAF creation. MEPs identify the planned worth of this technology to realize climate-impartiality while retaining a vigorous travel segment that adds to Europe’s financial development. Due to this, business travel can carry on to be an enabler of financial progress and human connections, while lessening its ecological effect. 

From the time of 2019, the EU has accepted a very determined program targeted toward decarbonizing its transport segment.

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