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Stay ahead of emerging environmental legislation that may affect your operations or impact your clients and their reporting. IADA Verified Products & Services Member 4AIR shares policy changes you can track here: https://lnkd.in/g-6gA2eU

Aviation can achieve Net-Zero by 2050 if action is taken - but we need to take action now. Since its founding, 4AIR has supported the Aviation Impact Accelerator (AIA), the Whittle Laboratory and Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) and they've just released their groundbreaking report, ‘Five Years to Chart a New Future for Aviation’, outlining an ambitious plan aimed at transformative change by 2030. The report outlines four Sustainable Aviation Goals to achieve #SustainableAviation: ✈️ Accelerating delivery of contrail avoidance ⚖️Unlocking system-wide efficiency gains across the existing aviation sector ⚡Rapidly scaling sustainable fuels 🌗Launching several moonshot tech demos to drive transformative change Read the full report below: #SustainableAviation #SustainableFuture #ClimateAction #GreenAviation #Sustainability #AviationImpact #ClimateLeadership #NetZero #Innovation

Did you know? Different feedstocks and production pathways result in varying carbon intensities (CIs) of SAF. A Lifecycle Analysis (LCA) plays a critical role in tracking and documenting these variations for accurate emissions reporting. By evaluating feedstocks from sourcing to combustion, a LCA can accurately detail the full benefit from SAF compared to traditional jet fuel. LCAs provide crucial transparency and accuracy in emissions reporting. Read more at: https://heyor.ca/OfnE6S

Understanding the carbon intensity (CI) of your fuel on a Well-to-Wake basis (WTW) is essential in to understanding the full lifecycle emissions impact of fuel. Our recent whitepaper provides a comprehensive view of how lifecycle analyses work and their importance to sustainability in the aviation industry. Read more at: https://heyor.ca/OfnE6S

What does it mean that SAF reduces emissions on a lifecycle basis? A life cycle analysis (LCA) evaluates greenhouse gas emissions from start to finish, from feedstock cultivation to SAF combustion. They are critical for accurately capturing the full sustainability story, reporting the emissions benefit from SAF, and understanding how some SAF reduces emissions more than others. Learn about the importance of LCAs in understanding the full footprint from SAF and its net benefit over fossil-based jet in our latest whitepaper. https://heyor.ca/OfnE6S

4AIR’s own Anneliese Dyer joined the National Business Aviation Association Young Professionals in Business Aviation (YoPro) in Washington DC this week to meet with members of congress and to enhance policies around long-term sustainability initiatives for the aviation industry, including promoting the production and consumption of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). 4AIR has documented the environmental attributes of more than 11 million blended gallons of SAF and views SAF as a crucial path for the aviation industry to meet its decarbonization goals.

Ahead of EU ETS requirements to monitor and report non-CO2 emissions in 2025, we’re developing solutions to assist with and automate those monitoring requirements. Our contrail study over the past year was a major effort to better understand business aviation’s contrail and non-CO2 impact and prepare for these coming monitoring needs. Interested in learning more about these future requirements and how we can assist you? Contact us to discuss how we can support your compliance needs at www.4air.aero/contact

4AIR is excited to bring contrail reporting and mitigation opportunities to business aviation. We’ve worked over the past year to develop processes and comprehensive reporting capabilities to better understand the flight-by-flight impact of non-CO2 factors. Measuring is always the first step in mitigating, so understanding which flights are creating contrails, and when, as well as other non-CO2 impacts, is the initial step in enabling business aviation to reduce its non-CO2 impact. In addition to developing our reporting capabilities, we have worked with dispatchers to educate them on how to incorporate contrail avoidance or minimization into the flight planning process, thus unlocking fuel-saving opportunities in some cases. These efforts pave the way for contrail mitigation and operational efficiencies to become a reality in business aviation. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/esPpVdXK

PODCAST 🎙️: Earlier this week, Simon Calder welcomed our President, Kennedy Ricci on to his podcast to talk further about the contrail research 4AIR released last week. Listen in as Kennedy goes further in-depth into 4AIR's first-of-its-kind contrail mitigation study, shedding light on the full environmental impact of business aviation, ways we can mitigate contrails, and educating listeners on the industry's advancements in sustainability research. Simon Calder is one of the most respected travel writers and broadcasters in the UK, who developed a passion for travel from a young age and has since become a well-known presenter, writer, and commentator in the travel industry. Listen to the full conversation here: https://bit.ly/3V6V8L7

Last week, we published a report on the contrail impact from business aviation and saw a few unique takeaways for the business aviation industry. We first saw the majority of our contrail impact comes from a very small minority of flights, just 23 flights were responsible for 35% of the total contrail impact from a sample of nearly 17,000 flights. Of those flights, 65% of them could have avoided or reduced their contrail impact by flying higher, saving fuel, and thus reducing their CO2 and non-CO2 impact, instead of a tradeoff between the two. So, targeting mitigation efforts to a small subset of flights would have an outsized impact on reducing our non-CO2 impact. Moreover, we saw the opportunity to reduce both CO2 and non-CO2 impacts, something unique to business aviation because of the higher service ceilings of the aircraft we examined, allowing them to climb above contrail forming regions. This work has helped us over the past 6 months in a contrail avoidance pilot program with Flexjet in Europe and to refine a contrail reporting process that we can bring our clients. Please reach out to us to learn more about our contrail reporting and mitigation product, or to learn more and download the report, visit: https://lnkd.in/eGfv3FVP