Abu Dhabi Future Vitality Firm PJSC – Masdar, one of many world’s largest renewable vitality firms and a worldwide chief in inexperienced hydrogen, is teaming up with aerospace firm Boeing to propel the sustainable aviation gasoline (SAF) trade within the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and globally. The partnership goals to additional assist the business aviation trade’s objective of reaching net-zero emissions by 2050.
The Memorandum of Understanding was signed by Mohammad Abdelqader El Ramahi, Chief Inexperienced Hydrogen Officer, Masdar, and Kuljit Ghata-Aura, President, Center East, Turkey & Africa, Boeing, through the Abu Dhabi Worldwide Petroleum Exhibition and Convention (ADIPEC) 2023.
Collectively, Masdar and Boeing will advance and assist the event and adoption of SAF insurance policies within the UAE and past. The businesses may even discover advancing SAF accounting rules, which might allow the SAF trade to beat geographical boundaries because it scales.
Produced from sustainable sources similar to inexperienced hydrogen, SAF can cut back carbon emissions over the gasoline’s lifecycle by as much as 85percent as compared with petroleum jet gasoline. SAF is broadly accepted at present as a drop-in substitute for as much as 50 % of typical jet gasoline in at present’s jet airplanes and presents the most important potential to scale back carbon emissions over the subsequent 30 years in all aviation segments.
Mohammad Abdelqader El Ramahi, chief inexperienced hydrogen officer, Masdar, mentioned, “World net-zero targets can solely be achieved by means of worldwide collaboration and innovation. Because the UAE’s clear vitality powerhouse, Masdar is proud to be partnering with Boeing, a number one world aerospace firm, to advertise the event of sustainable aviation gasoline initiatives. Collectively, we are going to advocate enabling insurance policies to nurture this key market. Forward of the UAE internet hosting COP28 we are going to proceed to leverage our mixed information, experience and fervour to assist trade and create a extra sustainable future for all.”
Kuljit Ghata-Aura, president of Boeing Center East, Turkiye and Africa, mentioned, “We’re excited to group up with Masdar to spearhead the expansion of the sustainable aviation gasoline trade, each regionally and globally, which is able to allow job creation, financial development and important enterprise alternatives. Adopting SAF goes to be aviation’s strongest decarbonization lever. Over a decade of collaboration between Boeing and the UAE in sustainable aviation is a testomony to our shared objective of reaching net-zero emissions by 2050.”
Earlier this 12 months, throughout Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week, Masdar additionally introduced that the Masdar-led initiative specializing in inexperienced hydrogen to supply SAF is actively working with licensors to certify a brand new manufacturing pathway for SAF from methanol.
