Italian Coffee Producer Lavazza to Join KLM’s Corporate BioFuel Program

February 10, 2020

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by Helena Tavares Kennedy (Biofuels Digest)In Italy, Lavazza and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines signed an agreement which will make the coffee company the first Italian partner in KLM’s Corporate BioFuel Program. The program contributes actively to making the airline industry more sustainable by stimulating the availability of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) on a large scale.

The cooperation between KLM and Lavazza fits perfectly with KLM’s Fly Responsibly initiative as KLM takes the lead in achieving a more sustainable future for civil aviation. The airline is doing this by making its products and processes even more sustainable, now and in the future. But real progress will only be possible if the entire industry works together. As part of Fly Responsibly, KLM is inviting passengers to take part in its CO2ZERO compensation programme, and asking companies to make their business trips more sustainable by participating in the Corporate BioFuel Programme.

Lavazza is the first Italian company to support KLM’s Corporate BioFuel Programme. The multinational has decided to marry a concrete collaboration with the major organizations that aim to make a system towards sustainability objectives, by signing the United Nations 2030 Agenda and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and joining the United Nations Global Compact.

KLM only sources sustainable aviation fuels based on waste and residue feedstocks that significantly reduce the CO2 footprint and do not have a negative impact on food production or the environment.

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KLM’s biofuel program

It’s not just Lavazza in the biofuels program, but many big-name companies – companies that can really make a difference. In 2019, the program united the following companies and institutions: ABN AMRO, Accenture, Arcadis BV, Arcadis NV, Amsterdam Municipality, Loyens & Loeff, Air Traffic Control the Netherlands (LVNL), Microsoft, the Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment, the Royal Netherlands Aerospace Centre (NLR), PGGM, Schiphol Group, SHV Energy and TU Delft.

As reported in The Digest in November 2019, SHV Energy, the world’s largest LPG distributor, and provides LNG and bioLPG to people without access to the grid, joined the KLM Corporate BioFuel Program. In so doing, SHV Energy will reduce its headquarters’ CO2 emissions by 50%. Additionally, the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) has extended its participation in KCBP for a further two-year period. TU Delft first joined the program on 1 July 2017.

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Coffee giant Lavazza joins KLM’s corporate biofuel programme (Biofuels International)

KLM and SKyNRG announce new industry partners for their corporate biofuel programmes (GreenAir Online)

Excerpt from GreenAir Online: Last year, SkyNRG started its own corporate SAF programme, Board Now, which extends the reach to non-KLM corporate customers. Its latest member is online air travel platform Etraveli Group, which operates over 20 brands globally.

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By joining SkyNRG’s five-year Board Now programme, members are contributing to the development of the plant.

“We are proud that Etraveli Group has signed up as our newest member to Board Now and we believe this sets an example for other international organisations with a carbon footprint from business travel or cargo,” said Theye Veen, Managing Director at SkyNRG. “Commitments like these are crucial in order to scale up the SAF industry and take the development of sustainable fuel worldwide to the next level.”

Headquartered in Uppsala, Sweden, Etraveli brands include Gotogate, Flightnetwork, MyTrip, TripStack and price comparison site Flygresor.se. The group describes itself as a global platform for flights and air technology. READ MORE