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Head of Opportunity Green, a non-profit developing bold solutions to close the gaps in global climate action.
The ONLY way to meet both our biodiversity targets and our decarbonisation targets for aviation and shipping is to focus on e-fuels, maximise efficiency and reduce demand in the first place. This is a hugely overlooked part of the debate on decarbonising both industries. While some of the worst biofuel offenders cannot be used to comply with the EU rules, the biofuels that are allowed still put our biodiversity targets at severe risk. Luckily there are ways to decarbonise both sectors without endangering biodiversity, and that is why the SASHA Coalition has brought industry from across the aviation and shipping industries together to focus on policy that will unlock decarbonisation - but not at the cost of our biodiversity. This is especially important in a week where BirdLife International released a report showing that the EU is falling short on it's 2030 biodiversity goals. Do the aviation and shipping industries really want to be the industries that tip us over to completely failing on those targets? If you want to be part of the industry that is tackling the twin nature and climate crises, then come and join us. DM me and I can talk you through the benefits of membership. In the meantime, read the full report 👇 P.s. in case anyone thinks we are blinded to the downsides of green hydrogen fuels, we do recognise the huge amount of additional industry-funded renewable energy that will be needed (and this is in the report). But when looking at all the fuel options holistically, e-fuels are the winners. With of course the most important exception being that the best fuel for the environment is the one you do not burn at all: efficiency and demand reduction as the real environmental winners. Anna Stratton James Wood Matt Finch Michael Liebreich Mariano Berkenwald Nanna Baldvinsdottir Scott Pendry Dominic Weeks Keith Lawless Tim Johnson Katharine Palmer Antoon Van Coillie Matteo Mirolo Cathryn Estes Cerulogy Emma Richardson Holly Attwell
New biodiversity report! The EU must decarbonise shipping and aviation – but at what cost to biodiversity? Our latest research launches today on #COP29’s Nature & Biodiversity Day. It shows that, if biofuels are used to fulfil the EU’s shipping and aviation climate targets, its 2050 nature preservation targets could be completely undermined. The solution? Green hydrogen e-fuels: they put less pressure on biodiversity and are less emissions-intensive than biofuels. Watch our video below to learn more, and find the full report here: https://lnkd.in/euV6PGe9 Arcadia eFuels | Cathryn Estes | Cerulogy #Biodiversity #Nature #Shipping #Aviation #Decarbonisation
Are biofuels best for aviation and shipping?
I think the reality is that we need a mix of fuels going forward, at least in the short to medium term, and yes, these will need to be burnt but if we can focus on advanced biofuels, we minimise destructive energy crops, deforestation etc etc.
Indeed, that's why we have extensively modelled and tested the hull of the X barge reducing its energy needs ... #ZULUAssociates
Speaker, analyst, advisor, investor in the future economy. Host of Cleaning Up, podcast on leadership in an age of climate change. Managing partner, Ecopragma Capital.
2moImagine writing a 234-page report on aviation fuels, and heavily promoting eFuels, without even the most cursory look at the cost of different options, and without including the cheapest and lowest land-use option which will be fossil jet-fuel plus a BECCS-based credit.