Conference Participation | SAF APAC Congress

Convening SAF Feedstock Dialogue at SAF APAC Congress 2025

25 Nov 2025 |Singapore| SAF APAC Congress

GCGF Managing Director Clarence Woo moderated and contributed to a high-level panel titled: “SAF Feedstock Mapping across Asia Pacific: Evaluating availability, accessibility, carbon intensity and scalability.”

The panel brought together perspectives from across the SAF value chain, including feedstock producers, technology developers, market analysts, and traders, to examine how Asia Pacific can scale SAF supply while meeting increasingly stringent sustainability and certification requirements.

Key themes from the discussion:

• Feedstock diversity and scalability, including ethanol-to-jet (ATJ), used cooking oil (UCO), agricultural residues, and other second-generation resources

  
  

• Lifecycle carbon intensity (CI) and the importance of harmonised carbon accounting frameworks aligned with CORSIA and EU requirements

  
  

• Feedstock cost dynamics, market pricing signals, and implications for SAF project bankability

  
  

• Traceability and certification, particularly under evolving ISCC and EU RED sustainability frameworks

  
  

• Regional infrastructure and trade considerations, including logistics, co-product integration, and cross-border supply chains

Drawing on GCGF’s work across land, maritime, and aviation fuels, Clarence highlighted the importance of systems-level thinking, emphasising that SAF scale-up will depend not only on technology readiness, but also on policy alignment, data transparency, and coordinated regional supply chains.

GCGF continues to support SAF development in Asia Pacific by:

• Facilitating dialogue across feedstock, fuel production, and policy communities

  
  

• Advancing understanding of ethanol and alcohol-based SAF pathways, including ATJ

  
  

• Supporting alignment on sustainability metrics, lifecycle assessment, and certification integrity

We remain committed to contributing independent, science-based perspectives to support the responsible scale-up of SAF across the region.