15 Aug 2025

SAVi Five: Reuters finds most airline-linked SAF projects lag behind targets, UK SAF usage below 2% in H1, and...

A Reuters investigation examined 165 airline-announced SAF projects over the past 12 years, finding only 36 currently pr...

8 Aug 2025

SAVi Five: Barclays & UBS quit NZBA pointing to fall in membership, Stratos DACC update, and more…

Following HSBC’s decision to withdraw from the Net Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA) last month, two other large European ban...

1 Aug 2025

SAVi Five: EU makes post-CSRD VSME recommendation, Heathrow submits expansion plan, and more…

The European Commission on 30th July adopted a recommendation on voluntary sustainability reporting for SMEs that presen...

25 Jul 2025

SAVi Five: First lessor order for BETA’s e-CTOL aircraft, China’s ‘green catalogue’ aviation criteria, and mor...

A subsidiary of Libra Group, the parent company of aircraft lessor LCI, announced on 23rd July it has placed a firm purc...

18 Jul 2025

SAVi Five: UK scraps Green Taxonomy, unified EU STIP demands, and more…

The UK government confirmed on 15th July it is scrapping plans for a UK Green Taxonomy in light of responses received to...

14 Jul 2025

SAVi Five: EU 2040 90% climate target at risk, US slashes SAF credit premium, EU taxonomy simplified, and more...

The European Parliament voted 379–300 to reject fast-tracking the Commission’s proposition to enshrine a 90% net-GHG red...

4 Jul 2025

SAVi Five: Trump to sign off on SAF credits through to 2029, IATA hits back at global levy proposal, and more…

US President Donald Trump is expected to sign into law a budget reconciliation bill with important changes to US fiscal ...

1 Jul 2025

Ishka and Airfinance Global announce merger to form aviation finance intelligence powerhouse

Ishka Limited and Airfinance Global Limited (AFG) today announced their merger in a strategic transaction backed by Foun...

27 Jun 2025

SAVi Five: China eyes 2027 ETS aviation inclusion, fuel surcharge-like climate levy proposal, and more…

Five noteworthy aviation sustainability developments in the past seven days curated by the Ishka SAVi team.

20 Jun 2025

SAVi Five: Australian taxonomy aircraft criteria, US Senate proposes SAF tax credits reduction, and more…

The Australian Sustainable Finance Taxonomy was released on 17th June, becoming the first since the EU’s and Singapore’s...

13 Jun 2025

SAVi Five: Pre-Paris news, industry outlooks, aviation levies update, and more…

With just three days remaining until the official inauguration of the 2025 Paris Air Show, start-up OEMs have begun thei...

6 Jun 2025

SAVi Five: SAF to reach 2 Mt in 2025, IEA investment report, and more…

IATA expects SAF production to reach 2 million tonnes (Mt) (2.5 billion litres), or 0.7% of airlines’ total fuel consump...

30 May 2025

SAVi Five: EU inquiry into Omnibus, 2030s jet fuel price volatility, Japanese ETS threshold

The European Ombudswoman at the end of last week opened an inquiry into how the European Commission prepared a legislati...

23 May 2025

SAVi Five: Plans to link EU & UK ETS, US SAF 45Z credit extension progress, and more…

Leaders of the EU and UK met in London on 19th May for the first EU-UK summit since the UK’s withdrawal from the EU, agr...

16 May 2025

SAVi Five: Key UK and US SAF bills & reaction, upcoming ZeroAvia cargo flights, and more…

Significant progress on SAF policy was made this week in both the UK and the US, with proposed legislation on both sides...

9 May 2025

SAVi Five: SKY Leasing’s VC acquisition, US SAF production, co-pro SAF breakthrough, and more…

This week's developments include a new report by the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) showing US SAF productio...

2 May 2025

SAVi Five: SAF demand updates, European aviation emissions, bank net-zero alignment, and more…

The past seven days saw several notable SAF demand assertions and market updates, including Air New Zealand reaffirming ...

25 Apr 2025

SAVi Five: Boeing pauses X-66, United invests in ‘duopoly challenger’ JetZero

Boeing has announced an indefinite pause on joint work with NASA on the X-66 flight demonstrator, a truss-braced wing co...

17 Apr 2025

SAVi Five: IMO carbon pricing lessons for aviation, NZBA drops 1.5C, and more…

Following the finalisation last week of the IMO Net-Zero Framework for shipping – described as the world's first industr...

11 Apr 2025

SAVi Five: Global ETS aviation update, European airline costs, IMO levy is set, and more…

This edition outlines ETS updates for aviation around the world, European airline expectations for regulatory compliance...