Sustainable Aviation Fuels Northwest

Sustainable Aviation Fuels Northwest (SAFN?) is the US first regional stakeholder effort to explore the opportunities and challenges surrounding the production of sustainable aviation fuels?.

The initiative was launched in July 2010 by Boeing, Alaska Airlines, the operators of the region’s three largest airports – Port of Seattle, Port of Portland and Spokane International Airport – and Washington State University, a center for advanced biofuels research. Climate Solutions?, a Northwestclean energy nonprofit, was retained to manage a stakeholder process that included more than 40 organizations ranging across aviation, biofuels production?, environmental advocacy, agriculture, forestry, federal and state government agencies, academic research and technical consultancies.

SAFN’s goal was to map a flight path to develop a safe, sustainable and economically viable aviation biofuels industry in the Northwest. The SAFN initiative takes place within a global network of similar stakeholder processes, which all support the broader aim of achieving carbon-neutral? growth across the aviation industry beyond 2020.