Green aviation targets driving cooking oil fraud at ‘mass scale’
JUNE 19, 2024
tags: aviation
By Paul Homewood
Net zero targets aimed at encouraging airlines to use so-called green aviation fuel are driving fraud “at a mass scale”, campaigners claim.
Exporters in China and Malaysia are using virgin palm oil instead of recycled cooking fat to make sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), research from lobby group Transport & Environment (T&E) suggests.
This means that rather than reducing CO2 emissions, the drive to adopt SAF may instead be driving deforestation.
SAF accounts for just 0.2pc of total jet fuel use, although the British Government has ordered UK airlines to lift that proportion to 10pc by the end of the decade.
Cooking oil forms the basis for 80pc of the world’s SAF, making old chip fat a valuable commodity.
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2024/06/19/green-aviation-targets-driving-cooking-oil-fraud-at-mass-scale/
