SUSTAF Agenda

• ICAO’s role in facilitating the research, development and use of sustainable alternative fuels by aviation, as a result of the Conference on Aviation and Alternative Fuels (CAAF/09) held in 2009 and the 37th Session of the ICAO Assembly (2010)
  
  – Ms. Jane Hupe (Chief, Environment Branch, ICAO)
   
• ICAO Global Framework for Alternative Aviation Fuels (GFAAF):
  Developments since CAAF/09 and inclusion of sustainable alternative fuels in States Action Plan
  
  

  – Mr. Ted Thrasher (Environment Officer, ICAO)

• Recent developments, and next steps (States)
  
  – Mr. Gilberto Lopez Meyer (Director General, Airports and
     Auxiliary Services − ASA, Mexico)
  
  – Dr. Lourdes Maurice (Executive Director Office of Environment and
     Energy (AEE-1), Federal Aviation Administration − FAA, United States)
  
  – Ambassador Jorge Taunay (Represenative of Brazil on the
     Council of ICAO)
  
  – Captain Aysha Al Hamili (Representative of the United Arab Emirates
     on the Council of ICAO)

• Recent developments, and next steps (Organizations)
  
  – Mr. Paul Steele (Executive Director, Air Transport Action Group −
     ATAG)
  
  – Mr. Michael Hurd (Director of Environmental Strategy, Boeing)
  
  – Ms. Victoria Junquera (Manager, Science & Technology,
     Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels − RSB)

CONSORTIA

  – Mr. Philippe Novelli (Coordinator, ONERA/SWAFEA)

  – Mr. Richard L. Altman (Executive Director, Commercial Aviation Alternative
     Fuels Initiative – CAAFI)
     “Sustainable Aviation Fuels. Defining and Implementing the Next Steps”

  – Dr. Nicolas Jeuland (Head of Department Fuels and Lubricants at
     IFP New Energies in France, and member of the Alfa-Bird Steering Committee)

  – Mr. Guilherme Freire (Environmental Strategies Director Embraer and
     ABRABA Executive Director)

  – Mr. Joachim Buse (Deputy Chairman, Aviation Initiative for
     Renewable Energy in Germany, AIREG)

  – Ms. Linden Coppell (Head of Environmental Affairs, Etihad Airways,
     on behalf of the Masdar Institute Sustainable Bioenergy Research Consortium)
    “Saltwater tolerant biomass as source of aviation fuel –
     a way forward for Abu Dhabi?”

• Qualification process
   
• Fuel evolution and certification/approval process
   
• Aviation fuels specifications
   
• Relationship between fuels properties and engine performances
  
  – Mr. Mark Rumizen (ASTM/Commercial Aviation Alternative
     Fuels Initiative, Aviation Fuels Specialist, CAAFI)
     “The Path to Qualification of Sustainable Alternative Aviation Fuels”

• New developments in research and qualification of sustainable alternative fuels
   
• What has been done, what remains, progress measurement, and perspectives on the need for research
   
• Short and medium-term – emerging feedstocks; long-term
  
  – Dr. Jennifer Holmgren (Chief Executive Officer, Lanzatech)
  
  – Mr. Frederic Eychenne (New Energies Programme Manager, Airbus)
  
  – Dr. Delia Dimitriu (Manchester Metropolitan University – MMU-CATE)
  
  – Mr. Jonathon Counsell (Head of Environment at British Airways/Solena)
  
  – Dr. Fayette Collier (Project Manager, NASA’s Environmentally
     Responsible Aviation – ERA)
  
  – Mr. Dirk Kronemeijer (Managing Director, SkyNRG)
  

• Challenges in deploying alternative sustainable fuels
   
• Commercialisation of sustainable alternative fuels and scaling up production of biofuels
   
• Achievements, what remains and progress measurement
   
• Infrastructural challenges related to global distribution
   
• Distribution perspectives: farm, feedstock processor, refinery, airport (pipeline/tank)
   
  – Mr. Jim Resoske (Vice President and General Manager of the
     Renewable Energy and Chemicals business unit at Honeywell's UOP)
  
  – Mr. Thilo Zelt (Business Development Agent, Platform for
     Sustainable Aviation Fuels, Leuphana University Lüneburg)
  

• Challenges in deploying alternative sustainable fuels
   
• Commercialisation of sustainable alternative fuels and scaling up production of biofuels
   
• Achievements, what remains and progress measurement
   
• Infrastructural challenges related to global distribution
   
• Distribution perspectives: farm, feedstock processor, refinery, airport (pipeline/tank)
  
  – Mr. Cesar Velarde (Observatory of Sustainability in Aviation – OBSA,
     SENASA, Spain), “European Roadmap”
  
  – Mr. John Plaza (President and CEO, Imperium Renewables)
     “Commercialization Path of Renewable Jet Fuels from the Biofuel
     Producer’s Perspective”
  
  – Mr. John Lo (General Manager HSSE, Operations & Technical,
     Shell Aviation) "Alternative Fuels – Practical Deployment Hurdles”
  
  – Mr. David White (Manager Sustainability & Climate Change,
     Virgin Australian Group of Airlines) “Sustainable aviation fuel
     road mapping study for the Australasian region”
  
  – Ms. Nancy Young (Vice President for Environmental Affairs,
     Air Transport Association of America – ATA)
     “Buying & Flying Sustainable Alternative Aviation Fuels –
     Deployment from an Airline Perspective”
  
  – Mr. Xavier Oh (Senior Manager Environment and ICAO Liaison, ACI)

• Recent developments, experiences and plans: domestic and international
  
  – Dr. Lourdes Maurice (Executive Director, Office of Environment and
     Energy (AEE-1), FAA, United States)
     “Domestic cooperative partnership programs for alternative aviation fuels”
  
  – Ms. Amy Bann (Director, Environmental Policy, Boeing)
     "Global and regional collaboration and partnerships"
  
  – Mr. Philippe Novelli (ONERA/SWAFEA Coordinator)
  
  – Mr. Cesar Velarde (OBSA-Spain) and Mr. Alejandro Ríos (ASA-Mexico)
     “Positive social impacts related to biofuels deployment –
     creating employment and development in rural areas"

• Policies on biofuels
   
• Availability of biofuels to aviation and incentives to market creation
  
  – Ms. Jane Hupe (ICAO Secretariat Chief Environment Branch)
  
  – Mr. Alejandro Rios (Director, Fuel Services, ASA, Mexico)
  
  – Dr. Lourdes Maurice (Executive Director, Office of Environment and
     Energy (AEE-1), FAA, United States)
  
  – Mr. Andy Kershaw (Manager, Environmental Policy,
     Sustainable Aviation Fuel Users Group − SAFUG)

• Accounting
   
• Life-cycle analysis
   
• Sustainability
  
  – Ms. Nancy Young (Vice President, Environmental Affairs, ATA)
     "The role that LCA and sustainability play in deployment of
     aviation alternative fuels”
  
  – Ms. Barbara Bramble (Chair of Steering Board of the Roundtable
     on Sustainable Biofuels, and Senior Advisor for National Wildlife
     Federation’s Climate and Energy Program)
     "RSB criteria, tools and certification process"
  
  – Dr. Chris Malins (Clean Fuels Program Lead for the
     International Council on Clean Transportation)
  
  – Mr. R. Stratton (Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics,
     Massachusetts Institute of Technology − MIT)
    "The sources of variability present in life cycle GHG inventories”

• Streamlining/harmonizing financial application process: banks’ case studies from States
   
• Corporate and project financing for biofuels: current situation and future trends
   
• Volatility in the market price of commodities, a risk and/or a threat to the feedstock, by-products and biofuels production and distribution chain
   
• Insuring investments in sustainable biofuels: the scope and coverage of governmental and private insurance
   
• Risks and opportunities in second generation biofuels investment: multilateral financial institutions; public funding; private banks
  
  – Mr. Donald P. Schenk (President, ACA Associates, Inc.)
  
  – Mr. Arnaldo Vieira de Carvalho (Senior Energy Specialist,
     Energy Division, Inter-American Development Bank − IDB)
  
  – Ms. Cindy Thyfault (President, Westar Trade Resources)
  
  – Mr. Alejandro Zamorano (US Bioenergy Analyst,
     Bloomberg New Energy Finance)