IATA urges governments to achieve 6% biofuel usage

Biofuel developers should get governments to provide fiscal incentives among other things in efforts to help the aviation industry accelerate its endeavor to reduce carbon remissions. The International Air Transport Association (IATA) Director General Giovanni Bisignani said they expect the industry to have six percent of biofuel in the system by 2020. These governments have the responsibility to help develop biofuel as this could also help close the gap between IATA’s target and the states’ target of fuel efficiency,” he told reporters via a teleconference from Montreal. “We hope to advance that number as we get closer to 2020,” he said, adding that the use of biofuel does not require adjustments to aircraft or engine. (October 11, 2009)