Financing Sustainable Aviation Fuels 2025

Although it is difficult to generalize across a variety of technology pathways, this white paper proposes 10 current and potential financial levers, drawn from case studies and summarized in Table 3, that can be adopted to increase the likelihood of SAF plants attracting investment and progressing to commercialization. Governments, airlines, investors and the wider value chain all have a role to play – both individually and in collaboration – to put these solutions into practice. The case studies and financial levers presented in this report will set the scene for future convenings of the aviation value chain through the World Economic Forum’s Airports of Tomorrow initiative. In 2025, the initiative will continue to explore how these levers can be replicated across existing and soon-to-be-approved SAF production pathways, while deepening the assessment of policy frameworks and their implication on the viability of the solutions presented here. Financing Sustainable Aviation Fuels 39