Feedstock availability

In March 2021, the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) published an estimate of feedstock availability for sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) production to meet the European Union’s (EU) potential share targets. They reported that by targeting the deployment of advanced SAFs from non-food feedstocks early on, the nascent SAF industry may be in a position to avoid the political controversies around the social and climate consequences of food-based biofuels. Nevertheless, the contribution of SAFs to aviation decarbonization will be limited by a variety of factors, including economic viability, feedstock supply, and the pace of technology deployment. They estimated that there is a sufficient resource base to support approximately 3.4 million tonnes of adva