Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF)

Airlines directly account for 2.5 percent of global energy-related CO2 emissions. That number increases to 4 to 6 percent when non-CO2 effects are included. The industry has an aspirational commitment to carbon neutrality by 2050, and airlines are actively deploying such measures as buying more energy-efficient aircraft, deploying new technologies, and developing Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF). It’s a long-term challenge.

Krishnan Narayanan, Chairman and Partner in SkiesFifty, an investment firm dedicated to sustainability in the aviation industry, spoke with Reporting from Paris Editor in Chief Shellie Karabell about developments in sustainable aviation.

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Shellie Karabell has spent more than 40 years in broadcast journalism as a news executive, anchor, producer, and field reporter in her native USA, Europe, the USSR/Russia and the Middle East for ABC/WTN, PBS, Dow Jones Broadcast, CNBC, and Forbes.com. She has covered some of the major news events of the 20^th century: the release of the American hostages from Iran in 1981; the collapse of the Berlin Wall (1989); civil wars in Lebanon (1983) and Yugoslavia (1991-92), and USSR/Russia (1986- present). She is currently VP of the Anglo American Press Association of Paris (President 2022-2025).