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IATA SAF Registry goes live
23/4/2025
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The International Air Transport Association (IATA) launched the Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) Registry to be managed by the Montreal, Canada-based Civil Aviation Decarbonisation Organisation (CADO), early in April. The Registry will enable a global market for SAF that will accelerate the transition to net zero by 2050.
The Registry is now live. More than 30 early users are already in the process of onboarding and ready to use the system. Participation will be free until April 2027, after which it will be operated on a cost recovery basis.
Marie Owens Thomsen, IATA’s Senior Vice President, Sustainability and Chief Economist said: ‘In releasing the SAF Registry to CADO, we have put in place a critical platform for the benefit of all stakeholders. It ensures that all airlines in the world have access to SAF and that their SAF purchases can be claimed against any climate-related obligations in this domain. The Registry will record the environmental attributes of SAF purchases in an immutable way, safeguarding against double counting.’
‘While this is of fundamental importance and a historically momentous advance, it is but one step along the way to a mature, transparent and liquid global SAF market. The Registry cannot produce miracles on its own, but without it, no miracles can be produced,’ she added.
IATA says the Registry will help solve the challenge of limited SAF supply – which is acutely scarce and available in only a few locations globally – by connecting airlines with SAF producers and suppliers, regardless of their geographical location. In addition, it gives airlines’ corporate customers access to in-sector emissions reductions and capitalises on firms’ capacity to co-finance the cost of decarbonisation.
The Registry was developed in consultation with airlines, government authorities, OEMs, fuel producers and suppliers, and corporate travel management companies.
