ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book deals with one aspect of a frightening situation. It presents the way the sustainability challenge that we all face in other spheres makes itself particularly apparent in aviation. As it turns out, this challenge of bringing sustainability to aviation, while evidently daunting, is probably the best shot that we all have in making a big, important, infrastructural, energy-intensive activity into something that stops harming our planet and its societies. A strong international institutional commitment to sustainable biofuels is now apparent in the industry, with air carrier representation groups like the International Air Transport Association (IATA) showing increasing policy support for and commitment to sustainable fuel. The book explains how understanding and need can be turned into policy that will bring the current evolution toward sustainable fuel to a pace.
