EVA Air collaborates with AIT Worldwide Logistics, Microsoft, FPCC to deliver scope 3 emissions reductions

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Taiwan-based EVA Air announced Aug. 25 that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with leading global freight forwarder AIT Worldwide Logistics to jointly advance EVA Air’s Green Transportation Program over the next two years.

In the first year of the collaboration, EVA Air will provide approximately 15,000 metric tons of CO2e in sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) environmental attributes to Microsoft, helping reduce the scope 3 emissions associated with air transportation of its cloud-infrastructure equipment.

Microsoft and Formosa Petrochemical Corp. (FPCC) also attended the signing ceremony, demonstrating a shared goal across the aviation, energy, logistics and technology sectors to accelerate lower-carbon air transportation.

The flights supporting this collaboration will depart from Taiwan using SAF supplied by FPCC.

Produced from used cooking oil (UCO), the fuel has been certified under the International Sustainability and Carbon Certification System GmbH for both its feedstock and production process.

Compared with conventional jet fuel, it delivers approximately 80 percent lower lifecycle greenhouse-gas emissions.

The associated SAF environmental attributes will be issued and retired through the ISCC credit-transfer system (CTS), an internationally recognized registry for tracking sustainability attributes, enabling Microsoft to account for the resulting scope 3 emissions reductions associated with air-freight transportation.

In 2020, Microsoft committed to becoming carbon negative by 2030.

To support this ambition, the company has continued to invest in SAF and other innovative solutions to reduce emissions across its value chain.

This collaboration demonstrates how these investments and corporate demand can help accelerate SAF adoption while supporting the growth of Taiwan’s domestic SAF market and a broader low-carbon aviation ecosystem.

As global demand for lower-carbon supply chains and sustainable transportation continues to grow, EVA Air has been actively expanding its SAF strategy.

Since 2025, the airline has regularly incorporated SAF into flights departing from Asia, Europe and North America, while also signing a five-year SAF procurement agreement with FPCC.

Through its Green Transportation Program, EVA Air helps corporate customers and freight forwarders better understand the carbon footprint of air transportation while supporting their scope 3 decarbonization goals through SAF environmental attributes.

Together with AIT, Microsoft and FPCC, EVA Air aims to establish a scalable and repeatable collaboration model that encourages broader corporate participation, expands SAF adoption and accelerates aviation’s transition toward net zero.

“Achieving net-zero aviation requires collaboration across the entire value chain—from airlines and fuel suppliers to logistics providers and corporate customers,” said Clay Sun, the president of EVA Air. “This collaboration demonstrates that when customer demand is aligned with industry resources, it can accelerate the development of the SAF market. We look forward to working with more partners to make lower-carbon air transportation the new standard for global supply chains.”

Greg Weigel, AIT’s chief strategy officer, said, “Every year, our teams are shipping large volumes of sensitive, high-value air cargo from Taiwan. EVA Air has been the partner of choice to support our exponential growth in the region and our trust in their executive leadership is rooted in decades-long relationships. By demonstrating the benefits of this collaboration with Microsoft, a strategically important customer, EVA Air, one of our core carriers, and FPCC, a local SAF producer, we hope to influence the market and inspire similar collaborations between airlines, producers, forwarders and customers in the Asia-Pacific region.” 

Together, the four organizations—EVA Air, AIT, Microsoft and FPCC—represent an integrated SAF value chain spanning aviation, fuel production, logistics and corporate customers, further advancing supply-chain decarbonization and the aviation industry’s low-carbon transition.

EVA Air added that it continues to strengthen its sustainability governance and disclosure practices.

Looking ahead, EVA Air said it will continue expanding the use of SAF, improving operational efficiency and working closely with suppliers, corporate customers and global partners to accelerate the transition toward net-zero aviation and create long-term value through sustainable growth.