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By Allison Lampert

LAS VEGAS, Oct 22 (Reuters) - At the world's most significant market program in Las Vegas luxury jets are drawing purchasers with their streamlined silhouettes, plush cabins - and increasingly, their usage of alternative fuels.

Fuel producers and jetmakers are eager to showcase unique kinds of air travel fuel considered less harmful to the climate, from used cooking oil to the definitely less attractive meat waste.

Business jet operators, like airline companies, have actually bowed to ecological pressure on air travel and dedicated to halving carbon emissions by 2050 compared with 2005.

Their hope is that adopting sustainable fuel to curb emissions could make organization jets more appealing to ecologically conscious purchasers - specifically corporations dealing with questions over sustainability from shareholders or green project groups.

The schedule of less polluting personal jets might likewise spare the abundant and popular the negative promotion experienced by Britain's Prince Harry and his partner Meghan over a recent private jet trip to .

Five Gulfstream jets on display screen in Las Vegas are utilizing California-produced fuel from inedible beef tallow.

The most recent waste-based fuels include "fats, grease and oils that are by-products of the food industry," said Bryan Sherbacow, primary industrial officer of Boston-based biofuel manufacturer World Energy, which produces fuel from meat waste used by Gulfstream.

"All of our product is inedible."

Some of the other 79 airplane on display screen are expected to be powered by 150,000 gallons of other eco-friendly fuel mixes anticipated to be pumped at the show.

FLIGHT SHAMING

Private jets represent less than 0.1% of total yearly carbon emissions globally, however can produce, usually, as much as 20 times more carbon emissions per traveler mile than jetliners, according to the London-based private charter company Victor.

Prince Harry has actually safeguarded his occasional use of personal jets to ensure his family's safety, and has actually said that on the rare occasions he does not fly commercially he offsets his emissions.

But planemakers state incidents such as the furore over his schedule have actually included fresh difficulties for an industry already aiming to justify its contribution to cutting corporate expenses.

"Incidents of flight shaming involving using private jets are unfortunate when you consider that our industry has actually provided fuel efficiency enhancements of 40% over the previous 40 years," stated Bombardier Aviation President David Coleal.

Bombardier believes increased sustainable fuel usage will assist the industry make inroads with corporations and rich buyers. According to market data, billionaires only have a 19% company jet ownership rate.

But even an image remodeling - with jets sporting sticker labels like "this airplane flies on sustainable fuels" and organisers adding alternative fuel pumps for checking out airplanes - is not likely to satisfy all critics at the Oct 22-24 high-end jet event.

Environmentalists and some analysts remain hesitant that biojetfuels, typically combined 50-50 with kerosene, will make a considerable influence on public understandings about luxury travel.

"No amount of jatropha curcas or Brazil-nut fuel can make company jets look eco-friendly," said air travel expert Richard Aboulafia.

Demand from business jet operators for sustainable fuels now far exceeds supply and their interest could drive future production, Sherbacow stated.

World Energy, which produces 40 million gallons of biofuel at its California plant, might expand production approximately 150 million gallons by 2022.

Corporate charter companies and experts are also seeing more interest from customers who wish to purchase carbon credits to balance out emissions from their flights.

Brian Proctor, CEO of Mente Group, a U.S. consultancy, stated emissions contributed in a business jet usage research study his company just recently finished for a Fortune 500 business.

"At the end of the day, I think that rate, expense per hour, variety, speed and performance, that's still the (sales) driver. But I believe people are becoming more knowledgeable about the sustainability of operations and how it affects the planet." (Reporting By Allison Lampert, Editing by Tim Hepher and Alexandra Hudson)