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By Allison Lampert

LAS VEGAS, Oct 22 (Reuters) - At the world's greatest market program in Las Vegas high-end jets are luring buyers with their sleek silhouettes, luxurious cabins - and significantly, their usage of alternative fuels.

Fuel and jetmakers are eager to showcase unique forms of air travel fuel deemed less harmful to the climate, from used cooking oil to the clearly less attractive meat waste.

Business jet operators, like airline companies, have acquiesced ecological pressure on aviation and dedicated to halving carbon emissions by 2050 compared with 2005.

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

The schedule of less polluting personal jets could likewise spare the rich and popular the negative promotion experienced by Britain's Prince Harry and his partner Meghan over a current private jet trip to southern France.

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

The current waste-based fuels include "fats, grease and oils that are byproducts of the food market," said Bryan Sherbacow, chief industrial officer of Boston-based biofuel producer World Energy, which produces fuel from meat waste utilized by Gulfstream.

"All of our product is inedible."

A few of the other 79 aircraft on display are anticipated to be powered by 150,000 gallons of other eco-friendly fuel blends anticipated to be pumped at the show.

FLIGHT SHAMING

Private jets represent less than 0.1% of total yearly carbon emissions globally, but can discharge, on average, 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 usage of private jets to ensure his family's safety, and has stated that on the rare occasions he does not fly commercially he offsets his emissions.

But planemakers state events such as the furore over his schedule have actually included fresh obstacles for a market already aiming to justify its contribution to cutting business expenses.

"Incidents of flight shaming involving making use of private jets are regrettable when you consider that our industry has provided fuel performance improvements of 40% over the past 40 years," said Bombardier Aviation President David Coleal.

Bombardier thinks increased sustainable fuel use will assist the industry make inroads with corporations and wealthy purchasers. According to industry information, billionaires only have a 19% company jet ownership rate.

But even an image remodeling - with jets sporting stickers like "this airplane flies on eco-friendly fuels" and organisers adding alternative fuel pumps for going to airplanes - is unlikely to please all critics at the Oct 22-24 high-end jet event.

Environmentalists and some analysts stay doubtful that biojetfuels, usually combined 50-50 with kerosene, will make a considerable effect on public understandings about high-end travel.

"No quantity of Jatropha or Brazil-nut fuel can make organization jets look eco-friendly," stated aviation expert Richard Aboulafia.

Demand from company jet operators for eco-friendly fuels now far exceeds supply and their interest could drive future production, Sherbacow said.

World Energy, which produces 40 million gallons of biofuel at its California plant, could broaden production as much as 150 million gallons by 2022.

Corporate charter business and experts are likewise seeing more interest from customers who wish to purchase carbon credits to offset emissions from their flights.

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

"At the end of the day, I believe that cost, expense per hour, range, speed and efficiency, that's still the (sales) driver. But I think people are ending up being more conscious of the sustainability of operations and how it impacts the planet." (Reporting By Allison Lampert, Editing by Tim Hepher and Alexandra Hudson)