Sabrina Khan-Dighe reflects on the SASHA Coalition's highlights advocating for sustainable shipping and aviation in 2025 and takes a peak at what's in store for climate policy in the new year.

Delphine Kaczorowski⁩, Advocacy Manager at the SASHA Coalition, unpicks the shortfalls in the EU Sustainable Transport Investment Plan (STIP), and explains what policy we need to accelerate e-fuels in the maritime and aviation transitions.

Next year the EU will decide on pricing international flight emissions, but airlines need to consider if the USA has their interests at heart before siding with it to oppose climate regulation.

As SASHA marks its second birthday, our team and members explain the latest developments in shipping, aviation and green hydrogen, and what the future holds for the coalition.

In early July, we were thrilled to be hosted by MEP Gerbran-Jan Gerbrandy and MEP Jan-Christoph Oetjen at the European Parliament for our event on delivering on EU mandates and scaling e-fuels for shipping and aviation decarbonisation. Here are our key themes and takeaways.

Technology neutrality – or not prescribing one particular technology – sounds great in theory, but it comes with downsides. It’s a shame the EU can’t learn from its past mistakes with road transport and take a bolder route with shipping and aviation. 

We speak to Brent Smith and Liudmyla Slobodianiuk from Ecojet, a new airline aiming to fly zero carbon emission hydrogen-powered planes.

How should the UK and EU do to get to net zero shipping after the disappointing IMO agreement?

We speak to Ram Ganesh Kamatham, Head of Programmes at SASHA’s knowledge partner the Sustainable Shipping Initiative (SSI), a non-profit convening industry members from across the maritime ecosystem to advance decarbonising shipping.

The International Maritime Organization MEPC83 negotiations will help determine the future marine fuel mix. The EU must not miss this chance to lift the barriers on its struggling e-fuel industry and accelerate its Clean Industrial Deal competitiveness goals by backing ambitious measures: a strong fuel standard and a high-price levy.

The SASHA Coalition suggests four policies for the EU Clean Industrial Deal to decarbonise shipping and aviation with green hydrogen e-fuels and boost competitiveness.

The SASHA Coalition turned one in May – but we’ve achieved so much more than hitting our first birthday this year. So, as 2024 comes to a close, our Policy Assistant Sabrina looks back on not one, not two, but 12(!) of our greatest successes in these ‘12 months of SASHA’… 

We speak to Antoon van Coillie, CEO of ZULU Associates, a company promoting zero emission shipping.

We speak to Keith Lawless, Chief Commercial Officer of SAF+ International Group, an e-fuel project developer convening actors across the supply chain to produce e-kerosene to decarbonise aviation. 

We speak to Clinton Liu, CEO and founder of Modular Clinton Global (MCG), a technology platform using blockchain, artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things to create transparent and sustainable supply chains and accelerate green hydrogen production and its deployment in maritime.

Last week, the SASHA Coalition headed to the Labour Party Conference to talk green hydrogen policy. With the new government less than 100 days old, we were keen to hear what’s top of the policy agenda and raise awareness of green hydrogen’s vital role in decarbonising shipping and aviation.

We speak to Scott Pendry, Director of External Relations at Cranfield Aerospace Solutions, a company developing hydrogen propulsion fuel cell aviation.

In the first in our new Industry Insights blogpost series, we speak to Martin Nielsen, Plant Manager at Arcadia eFuels, a company using renewable electricity to produce e-fuels, crucial for decarbonising hard-to-electrify sectors like aviation and shipping. Martin oversees the company’s landmark first e-fuel plant will be constructed in Vordingborg, Denmark.