IATA：疫情后绿色复苏必须包括低碳航空燃料

据能源世界网7月10日日内瓦报道，国际航空运输协会(IATA)周四强调了航空业对其减排目标的承诺，并呼吁国际能源署(IEA)优先投资可持续航空燃料(SAF)，以帮助航空业为疫情后的复苏做出贡献。

国际航空运输协会的呼吁是在IEA清洁能源转型峰会前夕发出的，这次峰会实际上是为了讨论如何走向低碳未来。国际能源署与政府和燃料行业的利益相关者一道，完全有能力促进SAF的生产。

世界必须从疫情危机中“更好地重建”，重点关注减少碳排放技术和SAF的投资上，这将在这个关键时刻创造就业机会，并推动航空业朝着到2050年将航空排放量减少到2005年一半的目标取得进展。

尽管SAF的潜力已经被证明，航空公司也已经做出了努力，但对于航空公司来说，目前的SAF产量仍然太低，无法实现这一目标。

IATA的总干事兼首席执行官Alexandre de Juniac表示，各国政府为疫情后的经济复苏投入了大量资金，这是为航空业能源转型创造了机会。

他在一份声明中表示，为了实现这一目标，各国政府、金融界和大大小小的燃料生产商必须共同努力，以迅速提高可负担得起的可持续航空燃料的产量。

IATA估计，目前SAF的年产量为5000万升。要达到生产规模将使SAF成本降至与航空燃料竞争的水平的临界点，产量需要达到70亿升，即2019年消费量的2%。

de Juniac表示，SAF是我们最大的减排机会。现在是时候推动它了，这样我们就可以在实现无化石燃料飞行的道路上大幅减少碳排放。

郝芬 译自 能源世界网

原文如下：

Post-Covid-19 green recovery must embrace sustainable aviation fuels: IATA

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) on Thursday emphasised the aviation industry's commitment to its emissions reduction goals and called for the International Energy Agency (IEA) to prioritise investment in sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) to help power aviation's contribution to the post-Covid-19 recovery.

IATA's call comes on the eve of the IEA Clean Energy Transitions Summit which will meet virtually to debate moves toward a low-carbon future. The IEA is well placed to promote SAF production with its stakeholders both in government and in the fuel industry.

The world must 'build back better' from the Covid-19 crisis with attention focused on investment in carbon reduction technologies and in SAF, which will create jobs at this critical time and boost aviation's progress towards its goal to cut aviation emissions to half 2005 levels by 2050.

Current SAF production rates are too low for aviation to reach this goal despite SAF's proven potential and airline efforts to date.

"The enormous amounts of money that governments are investing in the economic recovery from Covid-19 are an opportunity to create a legacy of energy transition for the aviation industry," said IATA's Director General and CEO Alexandre de Juniac.

To achieve this, governments, the finance community and the fuel producers -- both large and small -- must work together with the goal of rapidly increasing production of affordable sustainable aviation fuel, he said in a statement.

IATA estimates that current SAF production is 50 million litres annually. To reach a tipping point where the scale of production will see SAF costs drop to levels competitive with jet fuel, production needs to reach seven billion litres or two per cent of 2019 consumption.

"SAF is our biggest emissions reduction opportunity. The time is right to push it forward so that we can achieve major carbon reductions on the way towards fossil-fuel-free flight," said de Juniac.