Success Stories | Aviation

The World’s First Online Marketplace Analyzing the Leading Commercial-Scale Renewable Fuels for Aviation

Task

Accelerate the use of renewable jet fuels from test-flight phase to full commercial use.

Process

Identified market barriers such as lack of long-term advance market commitments from airlines, lack of financing mechanisms, and long-term contracts from airlines. Identified the possible solutions, developed an implementation plan, and prepared the development plan.

Solution

Developed an aviation fuel decision support tool to help provide stakeholders (i.e., fuel buyers, investors, and renewable fuel companies) with more transparent and accurate information about fuel options and their ability to scale sustainably. In December 2011, supported by Elsevier and Virgin Atlantic, the Carbon War room launched the beta website renewablejetfuels.org, providing an online rating service of the world’s renewable jet fuel providers.

Presented by

The Carbon War Room, an independent global non-profit, works to accelerate the scaled deployment of clean technologies. Over 50% of the climate change challenge can be addressed today — and profitably — under existing policy and technology conditions. We seek to facilitate a better flow of capital to entrepreneurial solutions that make economic sense right now.