Ministry of Construction signals a tailored SAF roadmap as ICAO, Airbus, Boeing, LanzaTech and Taiyo Oil convene in Hanoi — but Vietnam still has no domestic mandate while Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand have moved.

IBA's modelling shows extending the scheme to all EEA departures would roughly double covered emissions versus today's scope, with KLM, Lufthansa and Air France carrying the largest single-carrier cost impact.

Nine-question Call for Evidence opens to industry through 28 July as DfT signals it would rather adjust the flexibilities than let buyout absorb the carbon savings.

Sixth-edition outlook trims 2030 demand by 2.7 million tonnes, flags an eSAF supply gap that will price as fines, and tags US 45Z transition uncertainty as the key drag.

Climate Pledge capital flows into the Thomaston demonstration, following earlier Amazon stakes in Twelve and Infinium.

The Iceland facility couples solid-oxide electrolysis with geothermal heat to test a thermal-hybrid eSAF architecture. Capacity and offtake remain undisclosed.

The 91 KLPD plant pairs Ankur Scientific's biomass gasification with LanzaTech's gas-fermentation platform, producing ethanol that the company flags as a SAF intermediate.

PixelSky Capital leads the HoldCo round. Separate Korean and Sojitz commitments flow into the Arya CBG asset platform. The SAF angle sits in a 1,800 tpa NTPC demonstration plant in Andhra Pradesh.

Board approves Cubatão plant for 15,000 bpd of bio-jet and renewable diesel, with construction starting end-2026 and startup in 2030.

The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank's loan is one slice of a multilateral package financing the 20,000 bpd HEFA plant in Bahia, which Acelen Renewables (Mubadala Capital) is building to produce sustainable aviation fuel and renewable diesel.

The Topsoe-Sasol joint venture pairs with Hamburg-based MB Energy on hydrogen supply, storage, blending, logistics and airport infrastructure for European eSAF, anchored to the 30,000 tpa Schwedt project that just won a €350 million German federal-and-state grant.

Outgoing IATA director general says 2.4 million tonnes of 2026 SAF output cannot scale fast enough to meet the 5% emissions cut governments set through ICAO. IATA estimates EU and UK fuel-supplier mandates have added $4.3 billion to airline fuel bills.

38-million-gallon Nevada renewable diesel and SAF facility enters final sequencing phase as catalyst loading begins, with the Nasdaq listing-compliance and DevvStream three-party merger backdrops still live

100,000-tonne HEFA plant uses Topsoe HydroFlex technology and is anchored by a 75,000-tonne KLM offtake; SkyNRG describes the facility as the first commercial-scale SAF plant to close non-recourse project finance

Update removes ILUC penalties on US biofuels, restricts post-2025 feedstocks to North American origin and covers both 2025 and post-December 31, 2025 production

Moses Lake e-Jet facility runs on captured CO2 from a nearby ethanol producer, renewable electricity and water, with Alaska Airlines as physical-fuel offtaker and Microsoft as book-and-claim offtaker and investor

Cooperation agreement signed at Aviation Climate Week in Montreal commits both organizations to explore how registry data could feed ICAO's Long-Term Aspirational Goal Monitoring and Reporting methodology

France's biggest alcohol-to-jet push, anchored by Tereos-sourced advanced ethanol with Airbus and Safran as offtake facilitators

Three-year, 35-million-gallon SAFc agreement with Valero-supplied fuel delivered into Chicago O'Hare and environmental attributes retired by Google via the SAFc Registry

25,000 tonnes per year of neat SAF from 2028, distributed globally through book-and-claim toward DHL's 30 percent 2030 SAF target.

Pre-FEED confirmed site, feedstock supply and permitting path, with FEED in 2026 and a UK SAF Revenue Certainty Mechanism application in view.

Microbial fermentation lipids targeted as feedstock for a HEFA SAF route, with European markets explicitly named on carbon-intensity grounds.

Initial Resolution covers Keyes dairy biogas expansion, Riverbank underground CO2 sequestration, and Riverbank renewable diesel and SAF production.

Collaboration covers Metafuels' aerobrew process and considers long-term offtake for synthetic SAF as Switzerland and the EU bring in synthetic-fuel sub-quotas from 2030.

Non-binding agreement lines up modular blending and downstream logistics for Aether's commercial-scale Aurora SAF demonstration at Aster Pulau Bukom.

Analyst Eve Pope says sustainable aviation fuel's case extends beyond climate to insulating jet fuel from oil-price geopolitics.

Industriklivet grant funds pre-FID engineering for a 120,000-tonne-per-year eSAF facility at Skellefteå Näsudden, with a final investment decision targeted for 2027.

Dubai's state energy group signs preliminary framework with Abu Dhabi-based Allied Biofuels for offtake from a planned 160,400-tonne bio-SAF and 257,000-tonne e-SAF plant in Khorezm, Uzbekistan, where final investment decision is targeted for Q4 2026.

Lead author Kristin Brandt finds HEFA dominance, tightening used cooking oil supplies, and a historical project failure rate near 50% hold even the optimistic 2030 capacity at about 2.1 billion gallons, 30% below the SAF Grand Challenge goal of 3 billion.

The non-binding LOI positions a third EcoCeres HEFA complex on top of existing Zhangjiagang and Johor capacity, with feedstock collection in the Greater Bay Area and blending and trading anchored in Hong Kong. No investment figure has been disclosed and the SAF/HVO product split is undefined.

The IRS expanded the public hearing on the proposed Clean Fuel Production Credit rule to a three-day telephonic format, with ILUC, the 45ZCF-GREET methodology, and the primary-feedstock disqualification topping the contested-provisions list.

The Great Falls expansion came in cheap and on schedule against Calumet's 2025 revised plan, but Q1 segment economics still rest on 45Z credit generation.

Nasdaq-listed SAFX expects production at its 38 million gallon-per-year New Rise Renewables Reno facility to start in June 2026, and is positioning domestic SAF and renewable fuels as a strategic hedge against oil supply shocks the IEA has called the largest on record.

Q1 revenue of $42.9M and $8.5M of adjusted EBITDA mark Gevo's first profitable quarter on EBITDA, but the headline shift is the withdrawal from DOE loan financing and a pivot to private capital for Project North Star at the Gevo North Dakota site.

FLITE consortium's €500 million facility at North Sea Port will run on ArcelorMittal Steelanol ethanol from across the canal, sized for 79,000 tonnes of SAF and 9,000 tonnes of renewable diesel a year.

ASAFA closes its Da Nang summit with two government MOUs — IGIP under MOIT and Da Nang's DISSC — but Vietnam still has no draft SAF mandate, while Singapore's levy goes live in October and Thailand's 1% blending mandate began in January.

Non-binding MOU between Uzbekistan Airports JSC and Allied Biofuels FE LLC sets supply cooperation from 2030, covering 160,400 tpa SAF and 257,000 tpa e-SAF from the country's flagship clean-fuels project.

A 200,000-tonnes-per-annum biofuels facility in Ain Sokhna lines up Shell offtake and a multilateral lender stack, with commercial operations targeted by end 2027.

SAS's new report 'The Need for e-SAF in Scandinavia' calculates demand of 36,000 tonnes by 2030 rising to 330,000 tonnes by 2040 — against zero European e-SAF facilities currently at Final Investment Decision.

H.R. 7567 broadens the federal biofuels definition to include sustainable aviation fuel from renewable agricultural feedstocks and tasks USDA with growing the SAF supply chain through farmers, ranchers, and foresters.

The Canadian startup has secured a site lease and construction permit at the Husavik Power Station to run 1,000 hours of effects testing on a thermally-integrated SOEC electrolyzer it claims can produce synthetic jet fuel at 70% lower cost than competing technologies.

Assembly Bill 619 clears the way for a Synthec Fuels and Johnson Timber facility in northern Wisconsin to convert 880,000 tonnes of woody biomass per year into CORSIA-qualified SAF for European export.

Honeywell UOP's ETJ process technology selected for a 10,000-bpd SAF facility in Paulinia, Sao Paulo — the first commercial-scale ethanol-to-jet deployment in Latin America.

Five years, 40 million litres of neat SAF per year for DHL Express, 640,000 tonnes of CO2e avoided: the cargo-airline model taking shape at Europe's busiest hub.

Allied Biofuels secures Presidential Decree and Special Economic Zone status for Central Asia's first integrated clean fuels facility

A $1-$2 per gallon production credit for California refiners would divert diesel excise taxes earmarked for road repair, with Phillips 66 as the primary beneficiary.

Spero Ventures and Inspired Capital lead the round as Sora targets carbon-negative jet fuel at under $5 per gallon using only air, water, and renewable energy.

Ticket sales opened April 1, with economy passengers paying S$1 to S$10.40 per seat depending on destination band.

Iran's closure of the Strait of Hormuz has triggered emergency fuel rationing at seven Italian airports, forced airlines to cut routes and raise fares, and sharpened the energy security case for domestic SAF production

Colombia, Chile, Costa Rica, Panama, Aruba, Peru, and Bolivia signed Letters of Intent at FIDAE committing to a coordinated low-emission air corridor with four pillars covering regulation, production, and clean energy export

Project Atlas beat more than a dozen competing advanced biofuels and eSAF projects to become SABA's selected next-generation supplier, with American Airlines taking physical delivery under a book-and-claim structure

The Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines held its first SAF Policy Development Workshop in March 2026, citing rice and coconut waste as priority feedstocks and a 65-80% emissions reduction target

State-owned ESAF is finalizing permits, contracts, and financing for a 120,000-tonne-per-year HEFA facility using Honeywell UOP's Ecofining process

The 3-year commercial collaboration enables XCF to pair its modular refinery design with Axens Vegan HEFA process through a licensing-based model

Treasury and IRS proposed regulations implementing OBBBA changes drop SAF's base credit rate from $0.35 to $0.20 per gallon. Industry has until April 6 to weigh in.

Zemo Partnership's voluntary assurance scheme extends its proven road transport verification model to aviation, targeting carbon accounting accuracy across UK SAF supply chains.

A public consultation open until 22 May 2026 covers decarbonisation, SAF investment opportunity, and connectivity strategy across three airports handling 9.3 million passengers a year.

The SAF Coalition's Second Annual DC Fly-In targets bipartisan bills to reverse a credit cut that threatens the domestic production surge.

Nova Sustainable Fuels secures provincial environmental approval for a Goldboro facility targeting 165,000 tonnes of SAF per year from forestry residues and 1GW-plus on-site renewables

The final rule places advanced biofuel volumes at 11.10 billion RINs in 2026, setting the US compliance baseline that SAF producers are scaling to meet.

A hydrogen-fluidised calciner combining direct air capture, hydrogen, and concentrated sunlight could offer aviation a truly renewable, feedstock-independent route to jet fuel at industrial scale

The Nordic ground handler joined Swedavia's SAF auction and reduced business travel emissions by approximately 50% in 2025, while making its ground handling operations fully fossil-free

The fast-fashion giant is scaling up SAF commitments with DHL Express, Air China Cargo, and the World Economic Forum's Green Fuel Forward campaign

A dedicated building at Austria's Technical University of Leoben will test multiple SAF production routes side-by-side, using process simulation and machine learning to accelerate scale-up

The UK ETS Authority is asking whether SAF should still be zero-rated and which fuels should qualify — with responses due by 15 June 2026

Airlines for Europe's 16-member CEO Declaration calls for eSAF postponement as regulatory costs hit €15.5 billion and the EU's July ETS review approaches

IATA says aviation will surrender nearly 330 million EU allowances by 2030 while the SAF Allowance scheme covers just 4-5% of the industry's actual needs.

Industry review chaired by Boeing finds opaque fuel pricing, only one commercial UK producer, and plant financing as the central barrier to meeting 2030 targets.

SAFCo, the government-owned non-profit set up to buy fuel in bulk, turns Singapore into the world's first airport hub with a universal SAF surcharge.

A Danish government tender, a Finnish fuel producer, and Aalborg Airport have built the model the rest of Europe is watching.

A single Rolls-Royce SMR powering Equilibrion's Eq.flight system could meet one-third of the UK's entire 2040 power-to-liquids SAF target — and generate 10,000 skilled jobs per facility

Eco Innovation Group's acquisition target converts stranded natural gas into synthetic SAF without new feedstock infrastructure — and says every gallon produced is immediately absorbed by the market

With the Strait of Hormuz disrupted and fares rising, airlines face price spikes and mandate pressure simultaneously — but the cost premium means SAF is no short-term fix

The Commission's new clean energy plan explicitly funds small modular reactor research — a direct unlock for eSAF production struggling to reach FID

Southern Energy Renewables will develop a green methanol and SAF facility in St. Charles Parish, targeting commercial operations in late 2029.

The Sustainable Aviation Fuel Act 2026, which received Royal Assent on 5 March, creates a CfD-style revenue certainty mechanism for UK SAF producers and empowers the government to impose a levy on aviation fuel suppliers to fund it.

A new briefing from major US aviation law firm Morgan Lewis places SAF scalability and carbon market oversight among the ten most pressing legal and operational challenges facing airlines this year.

A DfT-funded feasibility study by Equilibrion, Q8Aviation, and Exolum concludes that South West SMRs could supply SAF and hydrogen to Bristol Airport at scale.

A UK Department for Transport-backed MOU will test whether Rolls-Royce’s Small Modular Reactors can provide the consistent, low-carbon energy that power-to-liquid SAF production demands at commercial scale

The European Commission confirmed it will not seek penalties against fuel suppliers that fail to meet ReFuelEU Aviation's 1.2% synthetic fuel obligation, leaving a 600,000-tonne target without consequences

The UK hub is offering airlines roughly half the SAF cost premium back as credits, targeting 350,000 tonnes of fuel and 600,000 tonnes of CO₂ reduction in 2026

The partnership gives Climate Impact Partners' corporate clients access to independently verified SAF Certificates as a credible solution for aviation-related Scope 3 emissions

S&P Global Platts data shows California SAF prices surged 132.88 cents per gallon in a single week, driven by Iran war-related supply tightening that amplifies the existing SAF cost premium

New ICCT analysis quantifies how EU state aid rules, ETS revenues, and electricity grid fee reductions can make e-kerosene and FT fuels from agricultural residues commercially viable

Australia's first methanol-to-jet facility will convert Green Triangle forestry residues and green hydrogen into 140 million litres of SAF per year using Honeywell's eFining technology

Finvest@ETAF applies IRENA's clean energy project facilitation model — 14 partners, $4.15 billion in pledged capital — directly to sustainable aviation fuel development

Hong Kong-based biofuels producer says duties extended to SAF in September 2025 risk constraining the very supply Europe needs to meet its own blending mandates

GreenSinergy and REA Consult launch formal engagement for Eco-Refinerías del Sur, a 500,000-tonne PtL facility in Argentina’s Chubut province

The Series A round, led by UVC Partners, will drive Metafuels' aerobrew methanol-to-jet technology from demonstration to first-of-a-kind commercial plants in Europe.

Metafuels awards a FEED contract to McDermott for its Rotterdam eSAF facility, while Synhelion signs a long-term solar jet fuel offtake with SWISS — marking two pivotal steps for advanced SAF in Europe.

The multi-year contract covers flight testing, customer deliveries, the Beluga fleet, and employee shuttle operations — representing one of the largest voluntary OEM SAF offtakes on record.

The independent, not-for-profit SAF certificate registry has crossed a landmark, tracking abatement equivalent to 255,000 round-trip JFK-Heathrow flights.

New analysis argues methanol-to-jet is uniquely positioned to scale rapidly once HEFA feedstocks hit their ceiling — and to help meet the EU's eSAF sub-mandate

UK hub sets target 2% above the government mandate, offering airlines £650 per tonne to close the cost gap with conventional jet fuel

CADO, 123Carbon, and RSB's Assure SAF Registry will enable cross-platform recognition of SAF sustainability attributes

Region forecast to produce 40% of global SAF by 2050 as governments from Singapore to Australia roll out mandates and incentives

DSL-01 becomes the first commercial-scale SAF facility to secure non-recourse project financing, backed by a 12-bank consortium and KLM as primary off-taker

Methanol-to-jet technology will underpin 200 million gallons of annual eSAF capacity across France, Finland, and the United States