Recently, while many planes converged on Dubai to deliver thousands of delegates to the climate change Conference of Parties, a flight much more useful to the climate cause left London for New York. The Virgin Atlantic Boeing 787 Dreamliner was powered 100 percent with Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) made from plant matter, known as biofuel.
The feat, the first such flight to cross the Atlantic, which lasted some seven hours, should have received a standing ovation at the COP28 in Dubai, for planes are notorious carbon emitters, and flying one using biofuel instead of fossil fuel reduces the offensive emissions that cause global warming by 80 percent.
