Carbon War Room Launches Site to Track Renewable Jet Fuels

December 30, 2011
AlgaeIndustryMagazine.com

ir Richard Branson, adventurer, entrepreneur, and early green energy proponent, took a lead role recently in the global search for biofuels for the airline industry by creating the Carbon War Room, a global, independent non-profit that brings together complementary NGO’s, entrepreneurs, financiers, and the climate change community to focus on large-scale solutions to climate change.

One component of the Carbon War Room, the Aviation Operation, has a mission to reduce emissions from the aviation industry by accelerating the scale-up of the renewable jet fuel industry. To that end, and to make it clear which companies have viable technologies and the way these technologies can be applied, the organization has launched the beta version of www.renewablejetfuels.org—a new advanced database of key information on companies working across the biofuel value chain, their products and their technologies.

“We started talking to buyers and producers of aviation fuel and discovered that the technology is ready and demand outstrips supply, but that there was not much information available that would connect buyers and producers,” said Suzanne Hunt of the Huntgreen Environmental Agency, based in Washington, D.C., who leads the Carbon War Room’s work on aviation and renewable fuels.

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