“That’s the holy grail,” added Israelit. For the early members of SABA like Bain, there is a hope that the alliance will help the accounting mechanisms for SAFs reach a level of sophistication comparable to those used to tally renewable energy credits. Israelit added that despite the market pull, there is an enormous challenge around greenhouse gas accounting for sustainable aviation fuels for companies like his that are looking at SAFs as part of their decarbonization strategy. Finding sustainable ways to do that “is important to us, it’s important to our clients, to our employees and our recruits,” said Sam Israelit, chief sustainability officer at global consultancy Bain. Founding members include many large companies that, while increasingly relying on digital tools to cut down on air travel, still regularly put people on planes to meet with clients and close deals. Many sectors have come calling to SABA, including bands and musicians concerned about the carbon footprint of their tours. The Sustainable Aviation Buyers Alliance is spearheaded by think tank RMI and Environmental Defense Fund, and the group’s members aren’t just from the aviation industry. Whatever gets me more is all that I care about.” “Look at this room,” said Josh Margul, manager of sustainability and environment, social and governance ( ESG) at JetBlue. On Tuesday evening, a short carbon-emissions-free walk away from the main sessions, a packed room listened to folks from the Sustainable Aviation Buyers Alliance discuss the promise and challenges of addressing one of the hardest sectors of transportation to decarbonize: air travel. (This writer lives locally and took a commuter train.) If you’re following Climate Week NYC on social media, you may have seen some occasional grumbling that so many people flew from all around the country and the world to come to a conference focused on combating climate change when all of that air travel generates significant carbon emissions.
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