Boeing committed to ensure that all its commercial aircraft are capable and certified to use 100% sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) by 2030.

The American planemaker said it will work with regulators, engine companies and other key stakeholders to achieve the goal.

Under existing regulations, aircraft may use a blend of up to 50% SAF and 50% conventional jet fuel. 

Boeing stated aircraft will need the capability to use 100% SAF "well before 2050" in order to meet the aviation industry's goal of reducing carbon emissions by 50% from 2005 levels by 2050. 

"Our industry and customers are committed to addressing climate change, and sustainable aviation fuels are the safest and most measurable solution to reduce aviation carbon emissions in the coming decades," said Boeing Commercial Airplanes President and CEO Stan Deal.

"We're committed to working with regulators, engine companies and other key stakeholders to ensure our airplanes and eventually our industry can fly entirely on sustainable jet fuels," he added, noting that sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) are the safest and most measurable solution to reduce aviation carbon emissions in the coming decades.

Boeing's commitment is to determine what changes are required for its current and future commercial airplanes to fly on 100% sustainable fuels, and to work with regulatory authorities and across the industry to raise the blending limit for expanded use. 

Chief sustainability officer Chris Raymond added SAFs "have the most immediate and greatest potential to reduce carbon emissions."

"With a long history of innovation in sustainable aviation fuels, certifying our family of airplanes to fly on 100% sustainable fuels significantly advances Boeing's deep commitment to innovate and operate to make the world better," Raymond said.

"Sustainable aviation fuels are proven, used every day, and have the most immediate and greatest potential to reduce carbon emissions in the near and long term when we work together as an industry." 

Boeing worked with airlines, engine manufacturers and others to conduct biofuel test flights starting in 2008 and gain approval for sustainable fuels in 2011. In 2018, the Boeing ecoDemonstrator flight-test program made the world's first commercial airplane flight using 100% sustainable fuels with a 777 Freighter, in collaboration with FedEx Express.