31.01.2012
02/2012
Brussels/FRA> The European airport trade body Airports
Council International Europe (ACI Europe) today announced
the latest results of its climate change initiative,
Airport Carbon Accreditation, the voluntary carbon
management certification program launched in June 2009 by
several airports including Frankfurt Airport (FRA).
Independently administered¹ and institutionally endorsed,
Airport Carbon Accreditation now boasts 55 airports
certified in Europe and 1 in Asia-Pacific - each Airport
Carbon Accredited at one of the four available
certification levels (Mapping, Reduction, Optimization
and Neutrality).
Fraport AG's Frankfurt Airport is Airport Carbon
Accredited at the Reduction level and is expected to
reach the Optimization level in several weeks.Dr. Stefan
Schulte, executive board chairman of Fraport AG - the
company owning and managing Frankfurt Airport -
commented: "Today's announcement by Airport Carbon
Accreditation clearly demonstrates how seriously the
airport industry is treating the issue of climate change,
and we at Frankfurt Airport are proud to have succeeded
in becoming part of that effort. Furthermore, Fraport's
Antalya Airport is also Airport Carbon Accredited at the
Reduction level.The efficiencies gained through the
various things we do to reduce CO2 are rarely visible to
passengers, but these latest results help put into
perspective all the work going on behind the scenes and
the progress² we are making."
Notes for Editors:
The IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) has
estimated that aviation's total CO2 emissions account for
2 percent of global emissions' impact on climate change.
Of that figure, airports' own operations only account for
up to 5 percent, but European airports are keen to tackle
their greenhouse gas emissions - several individual
airports operators having already committed to becoming
carbon neutral in the past few years with some having
already achieved this.
¹ The program is administered by independent consultancy
WSP Environment & Energy, overseen by an independent
Advisory Board including representatives of the European
Commission, ECAC (European Civil Aviation Conference)
EuroControl, ICAO (International Civil Aviation
Organization) and UNEP (United Nations Environmental
Program).
² In Year 1, the program certified 18 airports and
achieved a reduction of 411,390 metric tons of CO2. In
Year 2, there were 43 accredited airports and a reduction
of 729,689 metric tons of CO2, equivalent to removing
around 180,000 cars from the roads. Final results of the
CO2 reduction achieved for Year 3 will be announced at
the 22nd ACI Europe Annual Congress in Madrid from June
20 to 22, 2012.
For more information on the program, visit: www.airportcarbonaccreditation.org
For details about aviation and the environment, go to: www.enviro.aero
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