Mundo UFG Presents Series of Interviews on Solutions to Climate Change: This Episode Focuses on Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF)

(RTVEFone Foundation/Federal University of Goiás) Mundo UFG, programming on the campus-based TV UFG at the Federal University of Goiás, highlighted renewable fuels in four of its hour-long segments recently. This episode focuses on biokerosene/sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and related research and business topics.

As moderator for two of the episodes, Marcelo Pedro noted in the introduction to the episode on biogas, "It is clear that pollution has caused damage to the planet and we need to think about alternatives or the world will become uninhabitable" and pointed out the need to reduce polluting gas emissions released into the atmosphere and to diversify energy sources.

Leticia Brito guides these interviews with panels of leaders from the University and from Brazilian research, industry and advocacy organizations and includes questions from the online audience. These conversations provide insights into real efforts to fight that pollution, including carbon and other greenhouse gas emissions; to mitigate or reverse climate change devastation.

Instead of rehashing the well-known problems of climate change, this series invests its time bringing to light concrete work being done on solutions. Panelists talk about how sustainable renewable fuel and renewable energy are being used today to transition away from use of fossil fuel for power, heat, cooking and all kinds of transport.

The discussions also provide practical assessments of the difficulties, roadblocks and challenges to achieving the benefits of renewable fuels and the research, investment and policies needed to nurture success in Brazil and in the rest of the world; and the panelists give examples of how those challenges are being overcome.

The videos are in Portuguese (audio and sign language) with English subtitles. WATCH VIDEO (53 minutes)

Moderator: Leticia Brito

Sign Language: Dhenny Silva

Panel 1

Lorena Souza, regulation specialist at the Agência Nacional do Petróleo

Pedro Scorza, Aircraft Comander and Advisor to Environmental Projectsand Director of Renewable for Aviation at the União Brasilera de Biodiesel e Bioquerosene

Panel 2

Amanda Gondim, Professor of Petroleum Chemistry at the Federal University of Rio Grande co Norte and Coordinator of the Rede Brasileira de Bioquerosene e Hidrocarbonetos Renováveis para Aviação (RBQAV)

Helton Chaves, Agênciade Desenvolvimento de Parques Tecnológicos t Secretaria de Desenvolvimento e Inovação of the State of Goiás and researcher at Núcleo de Estudos Globais at the Federal University of Goiás

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Listen in as SAF market experts Bea O’Kelly and Louise Burke break down the fast-growing SAF market and provide an overview of how SAF is produced, the differences between SAF and renewable diesel/HVO, market fundamentals, and pricing mechanisms. LISTEN HERE

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