The Sustainable Aviation Buyers Alliance (SABA) is accelerating the path to net-zero aviation by driving investment in, and adoption of, high-integrity sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and supporting companies, airlines and freight customers in achieving their climate goals.
Our Mission
Accelerate the path to net-zero aviation
SABA’s mission is to accelerate the path to net-zero aviation by driving investment in high-integrity sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), catalyzing new SAF production, technological innovation, and supporting member engagement in policy-making efforts.
Key aspects of SABA’s work
Investment Opportunity
SABA will establish a rigorous, transparent SAF certificate system enabling air transport customers – not only aircraft operators – to invest in high quality SAF to meet their ambitious climate goals.
Education and Policy Support
SABA helps members navigate the technical aspects of SAF and the SAF market, aviation emissions accounting, and the SAF regulatory and SAF policy-making landscape.
Technology Innovation
SABA assesses emerging SAF technologies and works with like-minded organizations to help address barriers to scale and cost reduction.
Who is SABA?
Members
Members work in collaboration with EDF and RMI to develop a rigorous, transparent system that expands opportunities to invest in high-integrity SAF to all businesses and organizations interested in reducing the climate impacts of flying. SABA’s founding companies included Bank of America, Boeing, Boston Consulting Group, Deloitte, JPMorgan Chase, McKinsey & Company, Meta, Microsoft, Netflix and Salesforce.
ASSOCIATED ORGANIZATIONS
See all of our associated organizations committed to advancing a cleaner future of flight below.
Founding Partners
SABA is managed by Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and RMI, with expert support from Green Market Activation.
Mark Brownstein is Senior Vice President of Energy at Environmental Defense Fund, and a member of EDF’s executive team. He leads EDF’s Energy program globally, with a focus on halting the rise of global oil and gas emissions on a path consistent with a 2050 zero-carbon future.
Bryan Fisher
Managing Director,
Climate-Aligned Industries
RMI
Bryan Fisher leads RMI’s efforts to decarbonize the industrial sectors, which collectively represent 30 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. Key focus industries include, but are not limited to: steel, aluminum, cement, chemicals, shipping, trucking, and aviation. In this role Bryan also directs RMIs collaboration as part of the Mission Possible Partnership.
Kim Carnahan
Founder & CEO, The Center for Green Market Activation (SABA Secretariat)
Kim Carnahan leads the firm’s advisory work on alternative fuels, including green hydrogen and alternative aviation and maritime fuels. Previously serving over a decade at the State Department, she managed the teams that negotiated the Paris Agreement and the International Civil Aviation Organization’s Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Agreement for International Aviation (CORSIA).