{"id":333491,"date":"2024-06-21T11:17:37","date_gmt":"2024-06-21T09:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=333491"},"modified":"2024-06-21T11:17:39","modified_gmt":"2024-06-21T09:17:39","slug":"green-aviation-targets-driving-cooking-oil-fraud-at-mass-scale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=333491","title":{"rendered":"Green aviation targets driving cooking oil fraud at \u2018mass\u00a0scale\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By Paul Homewood<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Net zero targets aimed at encouraging airlines to use so-called green aviation fuel are driving fraud \u201cat a mass scale\u201d, campaigners claim.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Exporters in China and Malaysia are using virgin palm oil instead of recycled cooking fat to make <\/em>sustainable aviation fuel<\/em><\/a> (SAF), research from lobby group Transport & Environment (T&E) suggests.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This means that rather than reducing CO2 emissions, the drive to adopt SAF may instead be driving deforestation.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

SAF accounts for just 0.2pc of total jet fuel use, although the British Government has ordered UK airlines to lift that proportion to 10pc by the end of the decade.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cooking oil forms the basis for 80pc of the world\u2019s SAF, making old chip fat a valuable commodity.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, unscrupulous suppliers are <\/em>seeking to turn a profit<\/em><\/a> by cutting out the kitchen altogether and shipping virgin palm oil to unwary refiners and airlines.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Malaysia is the worst offender, according to T&E, as campaigners cast doubt over the country\u2019s claims that it exports three times more used cooking oil than it collects.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year Britain secured almost 30pc of its SAF from oil shipped from Malaysia.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cian Delaney, the group\u2019s biofuels campaigner, said: \u201cWith Malaysia being one of the world\u2019s largest palm oil producers, it would heavily indicate that used cooking oil is simply a backdoor for palm. Fraud is almost certainly happening at a mass scale.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

China also appears to be engaged in cooking oil fraud, T&E said.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

While figures on the collection and export of oil appear to match, China has a large market for \u201cgutter oil\u201d that is illegally resold for cooking.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Taking that into account, there are \u201cstrong suspicions\u201d that some exports include virgin vegetable oil mislabelled as waste oil.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

SAF production will need to be scaled up 100 times to help airlines reach the 2030 target, according to estimates from <\/em>Virgin Atlantic<\/em><\/a>, providing a further spur for fraud.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ryanair alone would need all of the used cooking oil in Europe to reach its target of making 12.5pc of flights sustainable within six years, T&E said.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Activists also fear that the illicit trade of SAF will encourage the expansion of palm oil plantations, one of the biggest drivers of deforestation in the tropics, according to T&E.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some biofuels \u2013 such as rapeseed oil \u2013 are produced directly from crops, but mostly in temperate regions where they\u2019re substituted for cereals already being grown.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Europe burns through 130,000 barrels of used cooking oil a day, eight times more than it generates.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

China, with a population of 1.4bn people, is the primary supplier of used cooking oil, exporting more than half of its annual production.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/business\/2024\/06\/18\/green-aviation-targets-cooking-oil-fraud-mass-scale<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s hard to think of a more stupid idea than this one!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Net zero targets aimed at encouraging airlines to use so-called green aviation fuel are driving fraud \u201cat a mass scale\u201d, campaigners claim.<\/p>\n

Exporters in China and Malaysia are using virgin palm oil instead of recycled cooking fat to make sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), research from lobby group Transport & Environment (T&E) 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