1. Airport Carbon Accreditation Collective engagement on Climate Change
Olivier Jankovec, DG ACI EUROPE
Sustainable Airport Environments – Frankfurt, 15 Sept 2009

2. OVERVIEW BACKGROUND CATALYST Why? FRAMEWORK & DESIGN What?
STRUCTURE How?
TIMELINE When? 2

3. BACKGROUND TRADITIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
Comprehensive, but exclusively local…
Noise, air quality, water management, biodiversity…
CLIMATE CHANGE: global impact
Media and public attention / Changing societal requirements
CC moving from science to active policy & regulation
EUROPE (EU) AS WORLD LEADER
EU & national binding targets for CO2 & related GHGs reductions
EC Communication “The Greening of Transport”
AIRPORT INDIVIDUAL ACTIONS
LFV, AVINOR, MAG, Schiphol Group, Fraport, BAA, ADP, etc…

4. WHY? Climate change exposure
AIRPORTS IMPACTED
Directly: energy use, infrastructure & ground operations
= up to 5% of global aviation emissions
Indirectly: airlines
RISKS
Policy & Regulatory
Financial
Reputation & Brand
LICENSE TO OPERATE & GROW
Reconcile aviation growth & environmental objectives

5. WHY? Key drivers POLICY & REGULATORY
OVERCOMING DEVELOPMENT CONSTRAINTS
CONNECT & INFLUENCE STAKEHOLDERS
COLLECTIVE ACTION
ACI WORLD Resolution on Climate Change (Nov 2007)
ATAG Commitment on Climate Change (Apr 2008)

6. WHY? ACI-E Environmental Policy
PROACTIVE & VISIONARY
ACI-E SUPPORTED EU ETS (Jan 2005)
Environmentally effective
Economically efficient
Politically deliverable… Towards a global system
COMMITTED
ACI-E/EUROCONTROL CDM ACTION PLAN (Nov 2008)
T CO2 saved
ACI-E/EUROCONTROL/IATA/CANSO CDA PLAN (Apr 2009)
T CO2 saved
AIRPORT CARBON ACCREDITATION
Collective engagement from European airport industry

7. WHAT? Scheme framework ACI EUROPE RESOLUTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE
17th Annual Assembly, Paris (Jun 2008)
“European airports joining forces to fight Climate Change”
VISION: towards carbon neutrality
“ACI EUROPE and its members commit to reduce carbon emissions from airport operations fully within their own control with the ultimate target to become carbon neutral.”
TOOL: common framework to engage members
“ACI EUROPE commits to establish and operate by June 2009 a European wide scheme allowing airports to follow a common framework for the measurement, reporting and reduction of their carbon emissions with the possibility of becoming carbon neutral”

8. WHAT? Key design elements
CARBON (ENERGY) REDUCTION
CO2 mandatory
Other GHGs optional
GHG PROTOCOL & ISO GUIDANCE
FLEXIBILITY & NO ONE SIZE FITS ALL
Scheme guidance material
Airports set own targets, in agreement with administrator
VERIFIED FOOTPRINTS AND REDUCTION PLANS
CARBON NEUTRALITY: ULTIMATE OBJECTIVE
Optional
Certified offsets as last resort

9. WHAT? Inventory scope GHG REPORTING PROTOCOL
Scope 1, 2 – CONTROL
Scope 3 – GUIDE & INFLUENCE
CARBON FOOTPRINT & MANAGEMENT PLAN: Scope 1 & 2
CARBON ENGAGEMENT PLAN: Scope 3
CARBON NEUTRALITY: only for SCOPE 1 & 2

10. WHAT ? Control, Guide, Influence
Activities airports are directly responsible for
 take measures themselves
GUIDE:
Activities which airports do not directly manage
 steer partners towards joint measures
INFLUENCE:
 only an influencing role
AIRSIDE
Airport Location
Airport Company
LANDSIDE
Control
Guide
Influence

11. HOW? Scheme structure VOLUNTARY CARBON ACCREDITATION SCHEME
3+ TIER PROGRAMME = Airport Carbon Accredited labels
1. FOOTPRINT: definition, assessment and verification
= MAPPING LEVEL
2. MANAGEMENT PLAN (control) + FOOTPRINT REDUCTION
= REDUCTION LEVEL
3. EXTENSION OF FOOTPRINT + ENGAGEMENT PLAN
= OPTIMISATION LEVEL
3+. CARBON NEUTRALITY
= NEUTRALITY LEVEL
INDEPENDENT THIRD PARTY VERIFICATION
INDEPENDENT ADMINISTRATION
EXTERNAL RECOGNITION

12. HOW? Scheme structure (2)
CARBON FOOTPRINT
(emissions under direct airport Control)
MANAGEMENT PLAN & REDUCTION TARGET (emissions under direct airport Control)
ACHIEVEMENT OF AGREED TARGET
(selected emissions within airport Guide and Influence)
STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT PLAN
(emissions within airport Guide and Influence)
OFFSET RESIDUAL EMISSIONS 1
Measure  2
Reduce 3
Influence 3*
Offset –
Carbon Neutrality

14. HOW? Scheme structure (3)
INDEPENDENT THIRD PARTY VERIFICATION
Process in accordance with ISO 14064:3 requirements
Footprint & Management Plans: GHG protocol and ISO 14064:1, ACA scheme requirements
Independent from airport / not involved in development of maps & plans
TARGETS: principle of “continuous improvement”
Improvement on the average of past 3 years
Level 2 (REDUCTION) / Level 3 (OPTIMISATION): set targets
Absolute or Relative performance
Encouraged to make targets public

15. HOW? External recognition
INTERNATIONAL CARBON REPORTING PROTOCOLS
WORLD BUSINESS COUNCIL FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
WORLD RESSOURCES INSTITUTE
GOVERNANCE
External administration: WSP Environmental
Independent Advisory Board
INSTITUTIONAL & GOVERNMENTAL SUPPORT
EUROCONTROL
ECAC (European Civil Aviation Conference)
EUROPEAN COMMISSION (DG Transport & Energy)
UNEP (UN Environmental Program – DTIE)
ENVIRONMENTAL NGO
WWF

16. WHEN? Scheme timeline REQUIREMENTS & DESIGN: Oct 2007–Oct 2008
PILOTS & TESTS: Oct 2008–Jan 2009
Manchester, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Malta, Umea (LFV), Dubrovnik
ADMINISTRATION: Mar–May 2009
BRAND & COMMUNICATIONS: Apr – May 2009
OFFICIAL LAUNCH: 16 Jun 2009
18th ACI EUROPE Annual Assembly & Congress (Manchester)
+30 airports committed to participate (11 European countries) 26% of European passenger traffic
FIRST ACCREDITATION: Frankfurt, 14 Sep 2009

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