UCT Sustainability and the SDGs 2022 - Report - Page 44
SDG 17: PARTNERSHIPS
FOR THE GOALS
With its extensive continental and international networks and partnerships, UCT plays a
key role in connecting the Global North with the Global South to build and share African
knowledge and expertise. Through these valuable collaborations, UCT is a leading partner
in driving the international research agenda.
To contribute most meaningfully to global partnerships for sustainable development,
UCT recognises the need to go well beyond these international networks of academia,
partnering with government, the private sector, and civil society at all levels.
Partnering to create
sustainable aviation fuels
Aviation accounts for about 2.5% towards global CO2
emissions but has a far larger warming impact due to
the non-CO2 gases and particulates it emits at high
altitudes. With the world racing to reduce global heating
to 1.5°C, it needs to have hit net zero CO2 emissions by
2050. This has had a huge impact in the world’s global
energy systems as demand for the technology needed to
develop sustainable fuels soars.
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In 2022, a team of UCT researchers from the DSI-NRF
Centre of Excellence in Catalysis at UCT’s Department
of Chemical Engineering partnered on the Catalyst
Research for Sustainable Kerosene (CARE-O-SENE)
project. Led by Sasol and Germany’s Helmholtz-Zentrum
Berlin (Helmholtz Centre for Materials and Energy,
HZB), the project worked to develop new technology to
produce green kerosene on a commercial scale.
This three-year research project has seen government,
research universities, and the private sector working
together on fuel catalysis research and technology
development to make large-scale production of green
aviation fuels possible by 2025.
