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To promote sustainability in aviation, RFF is investigating how international, national, and regional policies and market-based mechanisms can support the production and widespread use of sustainable aviation fuel and other approaches to decarbonization.
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Explainer — Apr 16, 2024
Sustainable Aviation 101
This explainer details key challenges to reducing aviation’s environmental impact and outlines potential technology and policy options for overcoming these challenges.
Report — Apr 16, 2024
Navigating Sustainable Skies: Challenges and Strategies for Greener Aviation
This report outlines challenges, strategies, and policy efforts for greener aviation, both in the United States and globally.
In Focus — Nov 21, 2023
In Focus: Sustainable Aviation
This video shares insights about technologies and alternative fuels that can help reduce emissions from aviation, with RFF Fellow Nafisa Lohawala.
Resources Radio — Aug 9, 2022
Sustainable Aviation Fuels, with Zia Abdullah
Zia Abdullah discusses the creation and viability of sustainable aviation fuels and outlines the challenges of scaling up their production and use.
Explainer — Apr 16, 2024
Sustainable Aviation 101
This explainer details key challenges to reducing aviation’s environmental impact and outlines potential technology and policy options for overcoming these challenges.
Report — Apr 16, 2024
Navigating Sustainable Skies: Challenges and Strategies for Greener Aviation
This report outlines challenges, strategies, and policy efforts for greener aviation, both in the United States and globally.
Working Paper — Jul 24, 2012
Aviation, Carbon, and the Clean Air Act
Aviation, Carbon, and the Clean Air Act
On the Issues — Jun 4, 2021
Biden’s Plan for Existing Oil and Gas Leases, Sustainable Aviation Fuels, and More
A weekly newsletter connecting global current events, pressing climate and energy policy news, and economics research from RFF scholars.
Common Resources — Nov 28, 2012
Policy Outfit Threatens to Sue EPA, Seeking Aviation Cap-and-Trade
Can EPA set up a cap-and-trade system for the transportation sector? If so, can it be forced to do so? The Institute for Policy Integrity, an (exce...
Common Resources — Oct 2, 2012
Senate Stares Down Europe on Aviation Carbon
Early last Saturday morning, the U.S. Senate stepped squarely into the debate over global aviation emissions, unanimously passing a bill that would...
Common Resources — Jul 30, 2012
Aviation, Carbon, and the Clean Air Act
Can the Clean Air Act be used to reduce emissions from the aviation sector? Sam Grausz and I looked at that question in a recent short paper we wro...
