LATAM Airlines look forá get to a 5% of sustainable fuel use 2030 favoring produceón in sudamérich of PURE. photo boeing
With a call to accelerate efforts to generate the necessary conditions for an aviationón comercial más sustainable, the CEO of LATAM Airlines Group, Roberto Alvo, hizo púthe aspirationón of the group to incorporate sustainable aviation fuelón (PURE, in its acronym in Englishés) en su operationón, favoring produceón generated in Sudamérica. This is part of the group's sustainability strategy, seeking carbon neutral growth, neutralize the 50% of sun emissionséstatics to theñO 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality 2050.
LATAM and sustainable fuel
“Sudanérica has the potential to be a líworld leader in productionón of sustainable fuels and thereby make a contributionón very significant to the actionón climáethics. For this to happen, actors are required to púwarlike and private, like LATAM, collaborate and play their role and dare to lead the transitionón energéethics that the world requires. with this ad, the group isá giving a señclear to the international marketés real in buying SAF fuels in the regionón», said Roberto Alvo, CEO of LATAM Airlines Group within the framework of the event “Wings of Change”, Organized by the Associationóno. of Transport AéInternational prisoner (THERE IT IS) the Días 6 and 7 April in Santiago de Chile.
The executive highlightedó the potential that the development of SAF has in the regionón for the available natural resources and its wealth in energyíthe renewable. Nevertheless, it is currently an immature market with little supply, that toún does not have the enabling conditions to develop its potential in the regionón, that include specific regulatory schemesíficos, graduationóno. of technologyíto and innovate usón, production supportón and log stringístic, mechanisms to lower costs, Inter alia.
Currently, the high production costsón and the immaturity of the market pose great challengesíyou thinking of a massón of the use of this type of fuel. In this way, the CEO of LATAM made a call to the government authorities, to private companies, academy and the rest of the companyñías aéareas to collaborate on this matter, to generate incentives that allow expanding productionón, the use and massificationón the SAF and Sudanérica as a way to seek solutions to the climate emergencyáethics.
¿Whaté It's the SAF?
It is a type of unconventional fuel, produced from renewable raw materials or derived from waste that meet sustainability criteria. The variety of raw materials is wide and can be cooking oils, fats, municipal waste and agricultural wasteícolas, among others. Además, There are other alternatives such as hydroógreen genus that alsoén can be used to produce PURE, although - for now- It is not commercially viable for this purpose given its high cost and low production volume.ón.
Sayún data from the THERE IT IS, the SAF provides a reductionón in emissions of up to 80% in comparisonón with traditional fuels, and is presented as the tool más immediate action to contribute to sustainable mass transportation.
Sudanérica reúne unbeatable conditions in terms of availability of sustainable resources and raw materials to develop this type of sustainable fuel. For instance, themselvesún WWF data, Brazil It has the potential to produce up to 9 billion liters of SAF, from different sources such as residues from agriculture and the wood industry and 2030 the world offer beán 6.500 MM Gal, of which 2.300 MM Gal (a 35%) saldrán of that market.
Long-term, spaghettiéIt is expected to be able to propel airplanes using hydroógreen gene as a source of energyíto direct; However, this technologyía aún isá in development and requireá modifications to current aircraft.
sustainability strategy
in May 2021, The LATAM Group Presentó are sustainability strategy based on three fronts: Climate Changeático, Economía Circular and Shared Value, where his commitment to protection stands outón of the ecosystems stratéAm magiciansérich of the South in order to be a zero waste to landfill group 2027, además to compensate the 50% of sun emissionséstatics to theñO 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality 2050.
