Corporate jet-setters boost sustainable fuel
THE BIG IDEA
Major U.S. airlines including United Airlines are partnering with corporate customers to boost the use of sustainable aviation fuel, which accounts for less than 1 percent of the more than 90 billion gallons of jet fuel burned each year. | Jeff Chiu/AP Photo
CLEANING UP CORPORATE TRAVEL With business travel expected to rebound this year, some of the world’s biggest corporations are taking a hard look at how its jet-setters affect the planet.
In April alone, Microsoft, Siemens and Deloitte were among at least 14 companies that pledged to purchase sustainable aviation fuel, one of the few promising climate solutions airlines have to directly reduce their pollution, your host reports with POLITICO’s Stephanie Beasley.
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Democracies unite in face of worldâs challenges
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Values and principles form the basis of who we are as international actors, but the currency by which they are translated into overall global good is practical action that improves people’s lives. There is no sense in having people admire democracy and open economies as distant abstractions unless they can see the demonstrable improvements that they make to those people’s lives and those of their families.
Secretary of state Madeleine Albright described the US in 1998 as the “indispensable nation”. It was a fair description for those post-Cold War years. Today, we are thinking more of indispensable relationships. Nowhere is this better illustrated than in the growing momentum towards deeper co-operation between liberal democracies across the globe.
Flurry of diplomatic contacts spurs speculation about deal with Iran Published 8 hours ago
In this May 3, 2021, photo, Britain s Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, right, and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken speak at a news conference at Downing Street in London. A flurry of diplomatic activity and reports of major progress suggest that indirect talks between the U.S. and Iran may be nearing a conclusion. That s despite efforts by U.S. officials to play down chances of an imminent deal that would bring Washington and Tehran back into compliance with the 2015 nuclear deal. (Chris J. Ratcliffe/Pool Photo via AP)
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