KUALA LUMPUR, April 3 — The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has launched the Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) Registry.
It said the registry, now live under the Civil Aviation Decarbonisation Organisation (CADO) management, would enable a global market for SAF that would accelerate the transition to net zero emissions by 2050.
“The registry is a global system to record SAF transactions in a standardised and transparent way. It ensures that the environmental benefits of SAF can be tracked as they move across the SAF value chain and enable the claiming of these against regulatory obligations and voluntary schemes by airlines and corporate customers.
"It ensures that all airlines in the world have access to SAF and that their SAF purchases can be claimed against any climate-related obligations in this domain," IATA said in a statement today.
The registry will record the environmental attributes of SAF purchases in an immutable way, safeguarding against double counting.
Airlines, their corporate customers, fuel producers, regulatory bodies, and all related organisations would be able to record and account for their SAF transactions in a global market for SAF..
IATA’s senior vice president of sustainability and chief economist Marie Owens Thomsen said further progress requires active policy support for the ramping-up of all renewable energy production, including SAF.
She said governments should reallocate their direct support given to fossil fuel producers in favour of renewable energy production.
"The precedent of the wind and solar energy markets is the example to follow," said Thomsen.
CADO was created in March 2025 to maintain and operate the IATA-developed SAF Registry. It is a not-for-profit organisation established under Canadian Law with its headquarters in Montreal.
CADO’s founding member is the IATA, which provides ongoing technical and operational support for the SAF Registry.
Membership in CADO is open to international organisations and companies in the SAF value chain.
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