ICAO - International Civil Aviation Organization

Assistance, Capacity-building and Training for Sustainable Aviation Fuel (ACT-SAF) is turning ambition into action. It means scaling real-world progress on sustainable aviation fuel in developing countries, with measurable results:

🔹11 studies delivered, 9 launched this past year — with 35 total studies now in various phases and good progress towards a target of 50 by 2028, all funded by voluntary contributions from 11 supporting countries and organizations

🔹28 new partners welcomed, making a total of 283, with increased efforts from several partners to provide their own direct support in line with ACT-SAF

🔹5 new training episodes released in the ACT-SAF series, covering everything from production pathways and feedstock options to policy frameworks and CORSIA developments - all available on ICAO TV

With ICAO underway in Montréal, these efforts are highlighting the latest progress in scaling sustainable aviation worldwide. Learn more: https://www.icao.int/events/env/icao-aviation-climate-week-2026

How do we help Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAF) scale faster and reach their full potential? 💭

As the aviation sector works toward its shared goal of , unlocking investment across the entire SAF value chain will be essential. Strong partnerships, innovative financing mechanisms, and collaboration between industry and financial stakeholders all have a critical role to play.

Connecting SAF project developers with the finance community is key to turning ambition into implementation. By fostering dialogue, sharing expertise, and identifying innovative financing solutions, ICAO and its partners can help unlock the investment needed to scale SAF production and advance the decarbonization of international aviation.

These conversations are helping to shape the solutions needed to achieve the industry's climate goals, including those being advanced this week at ICAO 2026.

What do bleached earth, dry coconut pulp, and sugarcane vinasse have in common? They're all approved feedstocks for sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) production! ✈️

Day 2 of ICAO is focused on SAF, LCAF, and other cleaner energies around the world.

Sessions kicked off with an update from ICAO Environment highlighting strong momentum across key indicators. Since 2025, SAF production capacity, supporting policies, and CORSIA-certified companies have all doubled—a clear signal that the industry is accelerating toward the goals set in the ICAO Global Framework for SAF, LCAF, and cleaner energies.

Today, the sector counts 5.7 million tonnes of SAF production capacity compliant with CORSIA, 93 supporting policies, and more than 700 CORSIA-certified companies.

Encouraging progress, and an important reminder of the continued effort needed to meet .

Setting the stage for ICAO Aviation Climate Week 2026, ICAO Air Transport Bureau Director Mohamed Rahma emphasized that ICAO's Strategic Goals contribute directly to the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, advancing a broad range of socio-economic and environmental priorities.

Learn more about ICAO : https://www.icao.int/events/env/icao-aviation-climate-week-2026

"Through decisive leadership and a shared commitment to climate action, we will ensure a vibrant future for flight." ✈️

With these words, ICAO Council President Toshiyuki Onuma opened the ICAO Aviation Climate Week 2026 in Montréal.

Bringing together governments, industry leaders, and stakeholders from across the air transport sector, the event will address some of aviation's most pressing environmental challenges, including scaling sustainable aviation fuels, lower carbon aviation fuels and cleaner energies, financing the net-zero transition, and the implementation of the ICAO global market-based emissions measure.

Read his full speech: https://lnkd.in/eRdUh88t
Learn more about the event: https://lnkd.in/epdiXNYs
Sessions will be available on demand on ICAO TV.

🌍 Increase your understanding of aviation's environmental footprint.

The Aviation Sustainability – Environment self-paced course provides an overview of the environmental challenges in aviation and the strategies used to address them.

Learners will:

🌿Explore how aviation activities contribute to air pollution, biodiversity loss, and climate vulnerability
🌿Identify key environmental impacts associated with aviation operations
🌿Understand strategies that mitigate pollution and protect ecosystems
🌿Recognize the importance of climate resilience and environmental monitoring systems

Start learning: https://store.icao.int/en/aviation-sustainability-environment?

The path to net-zero requires billions in investment to scale Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAF) and other cleaner energy solutions worldwide. The question now is: how do we enable the financing needed to accelerate SAF deployment on a global scale?

The SAF ecosystem is complex and highly interconnected. It requires coordination across project developers, fuel producers, financial institutions, technology providers, and governments. ICAO plays an important role in convening diverse stakeholders, supporting capacity building, and helping align the necessary frameworks needed to move projects forward.

Through the Finvest Hub, ICAO guides a portfolio of SAF and clean energy projects from concept to financial close, curating investor matchmaking, capacity support and technical assistance through its partners, giving the visibility projects need to attract the right capital.

The ICAO Aviation Climate Week will explore practical pathways to improve Finvest project bankability, the role of innovative financing instruments, and strategies to support projects in emerging markets. Tune in next week and learn more about the ICAO Finvest Hub: https://www.icao.int/finvest

As aviation evolves through new technologies, digitalization, and growing global challenges, strong legal frameworks are more important than ever. ️

Opening the Fourth Civil Aviation Legal Advisers Forum in Nassau, Bahamas, ICAO's Director of Legal Affairs and External Relations Bureau Michael Gill highlighted the essential role of international air law in supporting safety, security, and sustainability goals while maintaining a stable global aviation system.

He also emphasized the importance of collaboration and legal harmonization to help ensure no country is left behind as aviation continues to evolve. 🌍

is bringing together legal experts from across the sector to help shape the future of international air law. Tune into discussions live and on demand on ICAO TV: https://www.icao.tv/icao-civil-aviation-legal-advisers-forum

How can aviation close the remaining emissions gap in a globally harmonized and trusted way? ✈️

Significant reductions in aviation emissions are already being achieved through cleaner energies, new technologies, and operational improvements. Complementing these efforts, ICAO's Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA) is helping address the remaining emissions gap, with implementation showing strong progress and more than 99% of the sector's carbon emissions now being reported.

ICAO Member States developed CORSIA to provide a single global scheme to ensure the carbon neutrality of aviation's growth. It avoids the implementation of an ineffective patchwork of duplicative measures. In addition to its direct environmental benefits, CORSIA accommodates States' respective capabilities while keeping competition fair for airlines as they pursue responsible growth. In the medium term, CORSIA is key to realizing ICAO's strategic vision of air transport for all by 2050, with zero fatalities, net-zero carbon emissions, and no country left behind.

Only offsets approved by ICAO as meeting the high environmental integrity are eligible for use under CORSIA. Beyond offsetting, CORSIA is also driving the development of ICAO-recognized cleaner aviation energies. These energies are also crucial to our net-zero ambitions, and they provide both energy security and brand-new economic opportunities for our Member States — often in the emerging economies where these opportunities are needed most.

Now, we are looking at how to ramp up the momentum. That is why we are inviting world-leading experts to ICAO Aviation Climate Week in Montréal next week. The outcomes of these talks will help us strengthen CORSIA implementation and our climate change strategy as a whole, especially as we head into the next phase of CORSIA in 2027.

Learn more: https://www.icao.int/events/env/icao-aviation-climate-week-2026
https://www.icao.int/CORSIA