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ATAG executive director and conference host, Paul Steele.
Aviation’s ambitious targets
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CAO must clearly have been listening to speakers and delegates at the recent Aviation & Environment Summit in Geneva because its October 8 decision to endorse a set of ambitious targets for reducing aviation emissions was just what everybody wanted. The rubber-stamping of aviation’s goals (see page 95) ensures that ICAO
becomes the fi rst United Nations Agency to lead a sector in the establishment of a globally harmonised agreement for addressing its CO2
emissions. Speaking at the Aviation & Environment Summit, Paul Steele, executive
director of the Air Transport Action Group (ATAG), said: “Aviation has a common vision. We have global targets – capping our net carbon emissions from 2020 and halving our net carbon emissions below 2005 levels by 2050. We also have many of the tools to achieve these ambitious goals. Now is the time for governments to come to the party.” Over 300 delegates from 47 countries attended the fi fth global Aviation &
Environment Summit, which proved to be the most eventful yet in terms of topics covered and announcements made. Speaking during the opening session, ACI director general, Angela Gittens,
called on airports and their aviation partners to broaden their vision and action plan in order to be more responsive to the communities they serve. She said: “I emphasise the role airports can and do play in
advancing a blueprint for sustainable aviation. It certainly includes the reduction of carbon emissions, but it is much broader because of the essential nature of airports. “An airport, no matter how big or how international in service reach, is a
member of a local community and a neighbour. So our blueprint requires balancing the diverse demands of the communities we serve. Every voyage starts and stops with us, and makes the airport the symbol of aviation within each of the thousands of communities we serve worldwide.”
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ACI director general, Angela Gittens.
Airports and other key industry stakeholders confi rmed their ‘green’ credentials at the Aviation & Environment Summit in Geneva, reports Joe Bates.
Gittens assured the audience that airports are making measurable
progress on managing carbon emissions, but also manage in parallel the very important issues of noise mitigation, protection of natural resources and local air quality. She stressed that investments in environmentally sound solutions for
each of these priorities are strategic business choices made in a fi eld of many alternatives. “The ability to defi ne, measure and mitigate in an effective way guides an
airport in those choices for sustainable airport infrastructure,” she noted. She cited ACI World’s global best practice ‘Guidance Manual for Airport
Greenhouse Gas Management,’ a practical guide to measuring and reducing emissions; ACI Europe’s Airport Carbon Accreditation programme and ACI North America’s Environmental Achievement Awards as just a few a examples of ACI environmental initiatives. ACI Europe’s director general, Olivier Jankovec, went on to reveal
that since its launch in June 2009, the Airport Carbon Accreditation – the institutionally endorsed programme that independently assesses and recognises airports’ efforts to manage and reduce their CO2
emissions – had
certifi ed 22 airports in 12 European countries. The latest airports to sign up for the scheme, said Jankovec, are Brussels
in Belgium, Ankara Esenboga and Antalya in Turkey and Umea City Airport in Sweden. “It’s worth keeping in mind that this is still a very young programme – yet the is already a good start,” he added.
achieved reduction of 411,637 tonnes of CO2 CANSO director general, Graham Lake, used his keynote address to
argue that if aviation is to survive in its present form in 20 years time, it needs to tackle environmental challenges, through “fundamental co-operative action”.
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