Environment Here comes I


f someone was asked to list the great moments in aviation history, what would they include? The Wright Brothers, of course, and Lindbergh’s solo trip across the Atlantic 24 years later. What else? Maybe the first supersonic journey, somewhere over the Mojave Desert, in 1947. Or the first Concorde flight, in 1973, which carried passengers from France to the US in just three hours. Or how about more recent miracles of aviation, like the first non-stop solo flight around the world without refuelling, in 2005? Or even the 2011 invention of the world’s first flying car?


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Aviation has never been a bastion of environmental sustainability. But with rising temperatures, combined with greater social and political pressure, airports the world over are increasingly showing just how sustainable they can be. Andrea Valentino talks to Myron Keehn, vice-president of air service and business development at Edmonton International Airport, and Vincent Harrison, managing director at Dublin Airport, about why their organisations are choosing to go green, how new initiatives can both boost the planet and bank accounts, and how partnership with regulators might push even more sustainability going forward.


From the beginning, at any rate, air travel has been predicated on speed, innovation and ambition – often without enough consideration over the environmental impact. But with climate change increasingly on the lips of policymakers and aviation now accounting for around 2.5% of global carbon emissions, according to an article in the New York Times, there is increasing pressure on the industry to adapt. Of course, part of that shift is happening inside aircraft themselves, with sustainable biofuel and clever aerodynamics both making themselves felt. More than that, though,


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