02/09/2026
🛫 Aviation drives 2–3% of global CO₂ emissions and remains one of the hardest sectors to decarbonize. Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) is widely seen as the single biggest lever available, with the potential to deliver 65–80% of the sector's CO₂ reductions by 2050.
🔎 The challenge? SAF currently makes up less than 0.5% of global jet fuel demand. Scaling from ~1 million tonnes today to the 300–400 million tonnes needed annually by 2050 will require rapid, coordinated action on policy, finance, and feedstocks, especially across fast-growing markets like Asia-Pacific.
To support that shift, the World Bioenergy Association (WBA), in collaboration with the ASAFA Asia Sustainable Aviation Fuel Association, has published a new factsheet covering:
✅ Production pathways: HEFA, Fischer-Tropsch, Alcohol-to-Jet & Power-to-Liquid e-fuels
✅ Environmental benefits & lifecycle GHG savings
✅ Policy landscape across the EU, US, UK, Japan & Asia-Pacific (Singapore, South Korea, Australia, China), including ASAFA's 2030 regional targets
✅ Techno-economic outlook: costs, capital needs & the investment gap
✅ Emerging technologies: Methanol-to-Jet, next-gen Power-to-Liquid & novel feedstocks
Authored by Gabriel Ho, CSO at ASAFA, the factsheet brings Asia-Pacific market insights and industry survey data to a global audience, building the shared understanding needed to close the gap between today's SAF supply and net-zero aviation.
📄 Read the full factsheet: https://www.worldbioenergy.org/news/1024/47/WBA-Publishes-Factsheet-on-Sustainable-Aviation-Fuels/ and join us tomorrow for the launch webinar "Ready or Not: How the World is Preparing for CORSIA with SAF Targets": ae673628-981d-41e8-a654-09e035e6de87@31661975-511d-42b6-934a-18dfa04c6208" rel="ugc" target="_blank">https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/ae673628-981d-41e8-a654-09e035e6de87@31661975-511d-42b6-934a-18dfa04c6208