CADO and 4AIR harmonise SAF registries

Move is for both commercial and business aviation

The Civil Aviation Decarbonization Organization (CADO) and 4AIR have announced a strategic collaboration between its respective Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) registries. 

The key focus is interoperability, to enhance data integrity, mitigate double issuance risks, and facilitate efficient cross-registry SAF certificate handling between commercial and business aviation.

The partnership between the CADO SAF Registry and the Assure SAF Registry, powered by 4AIR, is a key step towards a fully functioning SAF market while safeguarding data integrity.

"Collaboration can leverage the strengths of each sector to tackle the challenge of decarbonizing the aviation industry more effectively," said Kennedy Ricci, president of 4AIR.

"Alignment between commercial and business aviation sends a strong demand signal for more SAF, creates greater transparency, reduces integrity risks for the SAF value chain, and eases the burden of claiming SAF under voluntary or regulatory schemes," 

"A unified approach from both business and commercial aviation is vital to create an environment that promotes SAF development and adoption across sectors," said Michael Schneider, executive director of CADO. 

"This can only be achieved when all registry providers work together and cooperate on the technical aspects of interoperability, to ensure immutable tracking of emission reductions, in a harmonised and standardised way. 

"This should lead to greater acceptance and demand for SAF, potentially lowering the costs and administrative burden for procuring SAF and claiming its environmental attributes under voluntary or regulatory schemes."

This collaboration with 4AIR follows the announcement of a similar collaboration agreement with 123Carbon to develop interoperability between SAF registries.