Over 200 European airports engaged in local weather motion inside Airport Carbon Accreditation, the worldwide carbon administration commonplace for airports. European airports outperform each the worldwide development and carbon financial savings charges.
BRUSSELS – Following the discharge of the Airport Carbon Accreditation Annual Report 2021-20221 at the moment, European progress made inside the world carbon commonplace for airports emerged because the standout star.
Having originated in Europe in 2009, the programme has persistently seen sturdy development in participation of European airports 12 months after 12 months. In the interval lined by the newly revealed Report, European airports outperformed the worldwide development issue with a 32% improve in participation numbers, reaching 204 accredited airports on the finish of the programme 12 months (May 2021-May 2022). Airports of all sizes, profiles and places are counted on this quantity, together with busy worldwide hubs, resembling London-Heathrow, Paris-CDG and Istanbul; virtually all airports serving European capitals, amongst them Ljubljana, Zagreb, Madrid, Brussels, Oslo and Bucharest; all through to smaller, regional and enterprise aviation airports, together with Montpellier, Stuttgart and Farnborough. This momentum for airport local weather motion accelerated regardless of the hampered progress of the COVID-19 restoration within the European area throughout the interval lined.
Airports in Europe have additionally topped the rating of the very best variety of airports on the extra superior ranges of accreditation – Levels 3+ (Neutrality) and 4/4+ (Transformation/Transition), with 68 airports within the area holding accreditation at these ranges by the tip of the reporting 12 months out of the 89 holding it globally. These ranges require airports to align their carbon administration and discount trajectory with the goals of the Paris Agreement, based on which world warming needs to be restricted to under 2⁰C and ideally 1.5⁰C. Their creation again in July 2019 marked a step-change within the programme’s ambition stage, laying the bottom to accompany airports of all sizes and places to succeed in Net Zero CO2.
European airports additionally outperformed the worldwide common in carbon efficiency, registering a -11.9% discount in Scope 1 and a couple of CO2 emissions in comparison with the worldwide discount price of -8.1%. The whole discount achieved amounted to -242,626 tonnes of CO2. This quantity is equal to the CO2 emitted throughout the manufacturing of near 36 million cotton t-shirts2.
Kurt Vandenberghe, Director General, DG Climate Action, European Commission commented: “It is vital that every one elements of the economic system take motion to deal with local weather change and scale back their emissions. We welcome that airports are proactive in lowering their very own emissions. Airports appearing to cut back their local weather impacts are displaying excellent motion from their place inside a sector that can solely turn into an increasing number of seen by way of its impacts on local weather change. Airport Carbon Accreditation, by having airports work their means up via a number of ranges of certification, brings collectively particular person efforts and results in important precise emissions discount collectively. The programme has had a management impact, as airways, air visitors controllers, retailers, passengers, and floor transport and different firms at airports at the moment are additionally getting concerned to decrease their local weather emissions on the bottom.
I congratulate ACI Europe on the momentum they’ve achieved – a reputable industry-led local weather change initiative that started in Europe, and which has now expanded to convey broader motion from airports throughout the Globe.”
Olivier Jankovec, ACI Europe Director General mentioned: “Against a challenging backdrop of a stop-start COVID-19 recovery and volatile operating environment, I am delighted by the ongoing momentum for airport climate action demonstrated in the results published today. European airports are leaders in carbon management globally, leaving no stone unturned in the effort to rid their infrastructure and operations of carbon, in line with the global climate goals and the ambitious climate agenda spearheaded by the EU.”
1 The 2021-2022 Airport Carbon Accreditation Annual Report is offered right here.
2 The manufacturing of 1 cotton t-shirt emits roughly 6,75 kg of CO2, based on information from the Carbon Trust.
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