ACI: Accredited airports: "We are the 52%!"

Following the inclusion of the airline industry into the EU’s Emissions Trading Scheme as of 1 January 2012, ACI EUROPE released an update on its flagship climate change initiative, Airport Carbon Accreditation, detailing the progress made by airports in lowering their own CO2 emissions.

As of today, some 55 airports in Europe welcoming 52% of European passenger traffic each year are now Airport Carbon Accredited at one of the 4 available levels of certification (‘Mapping’, ‘Reduction’, ‘Optimisation’ and ‘Neutrality’). 

Olivier Jankovec, Director General ACI EUROPE commented “With Helsinki airport, Dusseldorf airport, Warsaw airport and the 6 airports of Finavia’s Lapland Group now accredited, joining 46 others, our industrycontinues to make tangible progress in addressing its carbon footprint and becoming more efficient. More than 750 million passengers a year are travelling through European airports that are now Airport Carbon Accredited!”


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