Sustainability Assessment & Certification Service Pillar
The EU SAF Clearing House provides everything a SAF producer requires to determine the sustainability of their SAF product and obtain sustainability certification. Our experts are on hand to explain the sustainability requirements of the EU (ReFuelEU Aviation and Renewable Energy Directive) and international frameworks (ICAO's CORSIA), and to answer your questions.
Support with SAF Sustainability Assessment & Certification
Every synthetic and conventional aviation turbine fuel will have an embodied fossil carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2(eq)), land use, and other resource intensities, that are in principle specific to the individual fuel production process, feedstock, and supply chain. The level of sustainability of each SAF must be calculated considering these specifics utilising the concept of life cycle assessment (LCA). Typically, for SAF, the major figure of merit used to indicate sustainability is mass of fossil carbon dioxide equivalent per unit potential energy, gCO2(e)/MJ, also known as “carbon intensity” (“CI”).
The details of the sustainability calculation are complex and vary not only depending on the nature of the SAF, but also on the jurisdiction in which the product will be sold.
Our Sustainability Service Pillar supports existing and prospective SAF producers with the carbon intensity LCA calculation, connection to the certification body, and information & coaching on the role of sustainability in the SAF arena offering suggestions on production process configurations to maximise SAF sustainability.
The EU SAF Clearing House monitors developments in EU feedstock supply, sustainability regulations and methodologies, and in SAF market developments in order to provide advice as it is needed.
The EU SAF Clearing House has developed Sustainability Certification Guidelines to support new SAF producers to better understand the sustainability requirements under the EU’s Renewable Energy Directive (RED III) and ICAO’s CORSIA scheme. It outlines key regulatory and reporting obligations, greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction requirements and calculation methods, eligible feedstocks, and the sustainability principles applied across the two schemes.
The guidelines and a summary slide deck are available here:
