Thinktank Carbon Tracker warns sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) will play a minimal role in near‑term decarbonisation and won’t deliver meaningful emissions reductions. It urges policymakers and industry to prioritise investment in electric and hybrid‑electric propulsion for short‑haul flights as a faster route to cutting CO2.
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Carbon Tracker directly challenges SAF‑first strategies, implying SAF mandates and investments may not yield meaningful near‑term CO2 reductions; this complements the IATA–Worley finding that technology deployment, not feedstock, is the principal bottleneck for SAF scale‑up (see the IATA–Worley study).
The thinktank’s call to prioritise electric/hybrid propulsion reorients R&D and funding trade‑offs across industry and government, reinforcing recent moves by suppliers to accelerate electric propulsion work and exposing tensions with public SAF funding choices (see Collins Aerospace’s electric propulsion push and the UK’s recent SAF funding commitment).
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