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Aviation Sustainability News From The Last Month

Washington State Launches New Cap and Invest Program - Washington State's new cap-and-invest program officially launched in January 2023. The program, largely modeled after California's cap-and-trade program, originates from Washington's 2021 passage of the Climate Commitment Act ("CCA"). Source: JDSupra

Department of Defense Makes $65 million Bet On Sustainable Aviation Fuel With Latest Startup Investment - The Toyota Motor Corp.- and JetBlue-backed firm will use the funds to refine its production and ultimately build carbon-capture and fuel-generation facilities on U.S. Air Force bases. This investment is part of a broader push toward sustainable aviation fuels (SAFs). Source: Yahoo Finance

U.S. Department of Energy Announces $10 Million to Explore Mitigation of Aviation Emissions - Through PRE-TRAILS, ARPA-E envisions the development of an Aviation Contrail Predictive System, which could be capable of informing pilots and ground controllers in real-time whether an airplane is likely to produce persistent AIC. PRE-TRAILS projects will develop the diagnostics and predictive tools needed to explore further mitigation of contrail-related climate change. Source: ARPA-E

4AIR Whitepapers

NEW: ESG, What Does it Mean for a Flight Department? - ESG, or Environmental, Social, Governance, is a set of standards for a company’s operating behavior used by employees, lenders, customers, insurance providers, and regulators to evaluate a company’s good stewardship in society…

Other recent whitepapers

• SAF and ICAOs Carbon Offset and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA)

• A Brief Introduction To Emissions Trading For Aircraft Operators

• Navigating Carbon Offsets: How to tell good offsets from bad offsets

Latest Announcement

Global Aerospace Partners with 4AIR to Provide Sustainability Services to its General Aviation Clients

“Global Aerospace, a leading provider of aerospace insurance, announced a collaboration with 4AIR. 4AIR delivers sustainability programs dedicated to aviation, providing a simplified and verifiable path for the aviation industry to achieve meaningful aircraft emissions counteraction and reduction.”

Read the full announcement here.

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