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American Airlines and Google signed a record SAF certificate (SAFc) deal for 35 million gallons over three years, delivering SAF produced from waste feedstocks to ORD and aiming to cut about 300,000 metric tons CO2e; Google will receive environmental benefits via the SAFc Registry to offset travel emissions, with Illinois SAF tax credits helping scale SAF and a long-term offtake with Valero accompanying the initiative.
South Africa's Presidential Climate Commission has suggested that the government could delay retiring its ageing coal-fired power plants to address electricity shortages and said a power crisis had put the country on track to meet its climate goals anyway. The country relies on coal for electricity and is the world's 14th biggest carbon emitter. South Africa's national target for emissions reductions is 398-510 MtCO2e by 2025, and 350-420 MtCO2e by 2030. The government is committed to a plan to accelerate a shift away from coal and towards solar and wind energy, partly funded by Western donors.
Sultan al-Jaber, the Emirati official presiding over this year’s UN climate summit, called for a tripling of renewable energy capacity this decade and said the world was “way off track” in meeting its emissions reductions pledges. However, his distinction between phasing out fossil fuels entirely and phasing out their emissions left room for confusion and doubt. He emphasized the importance of carbon capture technologies that could help reduce or eliminate carbon emissions from production facilities and potentially elsewhere, which is in line with the position of oil and gas companies.