Singapore supports use of palm oil in SAF production

In Singapore, The Strait Times reported that the country’s Acting Transport Minister Chee Hong Tat said that palm oil should be included as feedstock for the production of sustainable aviation fuel.

The official made the comments at a regional meeting of transport ministers from the Association of South-east Asian Nations (Asean).

“We should take a pragmatic approach based on science and evidence, instead of an ideological approach based on pre-conceived bias and dogma,” said Chee, who was speaking on developing sustainable transport with his Asean counterparts.

The European Union (EU) had banned the use of palm oil to produce SAF on the basis that palm oil production has been associated with deforestation, according to the report.

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