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	View Edit Domain: BioEnergy Title: * Body: The International Air Transport Association (IATA) said Friday it would approve biofuels for commercial flights by 2010 in a bid to drastically reduce the industry's carbon footprint.<br /> <br /> Paul Steele, who heads IATA's environmental initiatives, told reporters in New Delhi biofuel would be certified "by the end of next year".<br /> <br /> Certification is widely regarded as a first technical step that could eliminate some of the investment uncertainties clouding the use of high quality biofuels in aviation.<br /> <br /> "For the first time, air transport has the possibility of an alternative to traditional jet fuel," said IATA chief executive Giovanni Bisignani.<br /> <br /> IATA estimates aviation biofuel could reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 80 percent "on a full carbon life-cycle basis" and that it would save 600 kilogrammes (176 pounds) of emissions per flight on a Boeing 747-400 plane.<br /> <br /> Steele said recent flight tests by carriers intended to "decouple traffic growth from emissions growth" had shown biofuel and traditional fuel could be successfully blended without changes to aircraft engines.<br /> <br /> But airlines face the challenge of controlling costs and procuring biofuel without affecting the food chain, he added.<br /> <br /> Biofuels are controversial as critics say widespread production could affect food crops, exacerbate global shortages and strain water supplies.<br /> <br /> Bisignani said biofuel was only a part of IATA's strategy to achieve carbon-neutral growth and eventually zero carbon emissions.<br /> <br /> He urged nations to treat the aviation sector as a separate entity ahead of international climate change talks in Copenhagen in December aimed at finding a successor to the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012.<br /> <br /> "If not, we face the risk of uncoordinated competitive government taxation that won't reduce emissions but will be harmful to global economic development," said Bisignani.<br /> <br /> Copyright 2009 Independent News and Media Limited <br /> Captcha: Please Enter Code : * Time Zone: * Select the time zone Vocabularies Newsletter: Domain: Show summary in full view Input format Filtered HTML Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically. Lines and paragraphs break automatically. Full HTML Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically. Lines and paragraphs break automatically. news_filter Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically. More information about formatting options			Related Articles EU Biofuels Targets to Cost $166 Billion, Study Says Novozymes explores seaweed-to-ethanol in India Unlocking Seaweed’s Next-Gen Crude: Sugar Mansfield, Noble merge ethanol marketing divisions Germany advised not to import food for biofuel ADM to close ND ethanol plant Algae Producer Aquaviridis and OriginOil Announce Joint Comm... Inaugural Sustainable Maritime Fuels Forum draws US, Austral... USDA Announces Funding for Two Renewable Energy Programs Working Together On Fuel - Biofuels Are an Industry Priority Top BioEnergy Articles

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