Environmental Performance Report 2020 Environmental Performance Report 2020
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ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE REPORT 2020 ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE REPORT 2020 01 07 INTRODUCTION WASTE 02 08 NOISE BIODIVERSITY 03 09 AIR QUALITY ENVIRONMENTAL 04 MANAGEMENT OF VOLUNTARY CARBON CONSTRUCTION WORK MANAGEMENT 10 05 RAISING ENVIRONMENTAL ENERGY AWARENESS 06 11 WATER CONCLUSIONS 2 53 ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE REPORT 2020 CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION This document presents the company's main environmental performance results of 2020 and aims to inform ANA's main stakeholders and the general public. ANA – Aeroportos de Portugal, SA (ANA) seeks continuous improvement in its environmental performance and, to this end, the company has an Integrated Management System that takes the Environmental component into account. It defines the priority actions due to the environmental impacts arising from the activity, setting out strategic action goals, which include efficient consumption of energy and water, monitoring and reducing greenhouse gas emissions, controlling potentially pollutant emissions, land use and water resource management, promoting the reduction, reuse and recycling of waste, noise management and biodiversity conservation. 3 53 ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE REPORT 2020 CHART 1 CHANGES IN TRAFFIC UNITS AT ANA AIRPORTS BETWEEN 2019 AND 2020 2020 was a year marked by the 0.0 COVID–19 pandemic and its effects -10.0 on society as a whole, including the -20.0 world aviation sector as a result of the -30.0 substantial reduction in traffic compared -47% -40.0 -2.8% to the previous year (Chart 1). -68.8% -64.4% -75.6% -63.2% -44.1% -61.6% -64,4% -66,7% -50.0 -60.0 -70.0 -80.0 AHD ASC AFR ABJ AJPII ASM AHR AFL AM APS AHD - Humberto Delgado Airport, in Lisbon; ASC - Francisco Sá Carneiro Airport, in Porto ; AFR - Faro Airport; ABJ - Beja Airport; AJPII - João Paulo II Airport, in Ponta Delgada; ASM - Santa Maria Airport; AHR Horta Airport; AFL - Flores Airport; AM - Madeira Airport; APS - Porto Santo Airport; TU – Traffic Unit (1 TU is equivalent to 1 passenger or 100 kg of cargo). 4 53 ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE REPORT 2020 Therefore, the company’s environmental This strategy has clear and ambitions goals: management in 2020 was mainly focused • to maintain our ISO 14001 certification; in readjustments, reassessment and • to reduce our energy consumption; realignment of its environmental systems • to reduce our carbon footprint; in light of the new reality. It was a year filled • to obtain Level 4 (optimisation) or 4+ with many challenges, but it was also the (neutrality) in our Airport Carbon Accreditation; year that ANA reaffirmed its commitment to • to reduce the amount of waste produced; the environment, taking up the challenge of • to reduce the amount of waste sent to making this decade the “decade of the green landfills; transition”. • to increase our material and organic recovery rates; It was in this context that, in 2020, the • to reduce our water consumption and our company launched its new environmental consumption of plant protection products. strategy, AIRPACT 2030, which applies to all airports in the VINCI Group. These goals are achieved through specific targets, plans and actions at each one of the airports managed by the company. 5 53 ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE REPORT 2020 CHAPTER 2 NOISE MORE 6 53 ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE REPORT 2020 Management of noise emissions continues to be of great relevance to ANA, as is our commitment in the Company's Environmental Policy. The mitigation of its impact around airports remains a In this context, continuous noise monitoring Monitoring is complemented by one portable was maintained through the Noise Monitoring station at each airport in order to enable priority action area, although this is heavily System installed in the airports where this analyses to be carried out in places not covered environmental descriptor is more significant by the fixed stations, or in response to any dependent on airlines as the surrounding (Humberto Delgado, Francisco Sá Carneiro, Faro, complaints made. A portable station is used for Madeira), as well as Porto Santo Airport, and continuous monitoring at Porto Santo Airport. noise is generated by aircraft flying over the Noise Monitoring Reports were issued. In the specific case of João Paulo II Airport, city. the Noise Monitoring Reports are prepared by Lisbon Airport has seven fixed monitoring an external laboratory, based on monitoring stations and one mobile station, complemented campaigns carried out per IATA period. by two stations on the airport perimeter, in order to check use of the engine braking Simulations/forecasts are also carried out procedure (reverse thrust). through the regular preparation of Noise Maps Francisco Sá Carneiro Airport, Faro Airport and which characterise the acoustic environment Madeira Airport are equipped with three fixed around larger airports, where the impact of stations each. increased expression in relation to the particular noise of the aircraft is expected. 7 53 ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE REPORT 2020 For this purpose, real data associated with As they are deemed to fall under large air However, it should be noted that the basic aircraft movements during the reference transport infrastructure, and in coordination benchmarks and references studied under periods are used, thus ensuring higher with the Portuguese Environment Agency, the these plans did not take into account, nor accuracy in the results obtained. These measures contained in the Noise Reduction indeed could they have, the effects of the are validated using the results from the Action Plans continued to be implemented in COVID-19 pandemic on the air traffic sector, continuous noise monitoring stations installed 2020 at Lisbon and Porto airports. which have consequences that must not be in and around the airport. neglected and with repercussions that are still To this end, different types of interventions hard to account for, much less predict. The results are presented in dB(A) and the were defined, aimed at noise management, noise indicators used are those resulting control, minimisation and reduction, from Bearing these constraints in mind, the entire from the provisions of the General Noise a balanced approach perspective, which assessment will have to be reanalysed, Regulation, namely Lden and Ln. is in line with current best practices and particularly as to a review of the Action Plans, international guidelines. based on the scenario associated with the Strategic Noise Maps for 2021. It should also be noted that noise blackspots were monitored in Porto Airport in 2020. In 2020, five complaints were received at Lisbon Airport and one at Faro Airport. 8 53 ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE REPORT 2020 CHAPTER 3 AIR QUALITY 9 53 ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE REPORT 2020 ANA continues to monitor gas emissions at its airports, in accordance with its legal Generally (...) obligations, particularly those associated with point sources. In the same way, air quality is also monitored at Humberto Delgado, Francisco Sá Carneiro and Madeira it is concluded that the airports. This control is generally achieved through monitoring campaigns that outdoor ambient air quality take place both in summer and winter. In 2020, air quality at the airports maintained a mostly favourable level of air at the airport was not quality indices, with values lower than the regulatory threshold values and with classifications of “Good” and “Very Good”, occasionally with results showing lower significantly affected quality, associated with local factors or specific atmospheric conditions. by the emissions sources Generally speaking, it is concluded that the outdoor ambient air quality at the in the airport. airport was not significantly affected by the emissions sources in the airport. 10 53 ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE REPORT 2020 CHAPTER 4 VOLUNTARY CARBON MANAGEMENT MORE 11 53 ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE REPORT 2020 Continuing with the annual calculation of the company's carbon footprint (ANA total, head office and by airport), the carbon footprint for 2019 was calculated When the analysis takes in 2020 (direct and indirect emissions). Table 1 shows the changes in ANA’s total footprint between 2016 and 2019. airport growth into account In 2019, ANA's total Scope 1 (direct emissions) and Scope 2 (emissions associated with electricity) emissions, increased by 2% and fell by 26%, (emissions by TU), emissions respectively, compared to 2018. When the analysis takes airport growth into account (emissions by TU), emissions decreased for both scopes (-5% and decreased for both scopes -31%, respectively). (-5% and -31%, respectively). Scope 3 emissions (indirect emissions) increased 10% compared to 2018. The increase in emissions is essentially related to the increase of aircraft emissions (LTO) and to passenger transport, in operations, that reflect the increase in operations at ANA airports. Thus, Scope 3 emissions by TU only increased 3% last year. 12 53 ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE REPORT 2020 Given that VINCI Airports defined targets TABLE 1 for carbon intensity reduction (-20% GJ/TU) CHANGES IN ANA'S CARBON FOOTPRINT BY SCOPE for 2020, in comparison to 2013, it was (TON CO2 eq) decided to carry out an analysis for carbon emissions in 2019 using that year as the 2016 2017 2018 2019 Δ 18/19 reference. In this case, there was found Scope 1 (t CO2e) 7 976 9 068 9 533 9 703 1.8 to have been a 5% reduction in absolute Scope 2 (t CO2e) 37 352 46 325 41 436 30 583 -26.2 718 855 821 336 emissions in Scope 1 and a 21% reduction Scope 3 (t CO2e) 896 096 986 473 10.1 in Scope 2. Scope 1 +2 + 3 (t CO2e) 764 182 876 729 947 065 1 026 759 8.4 13 53 ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE REPORT 2020 ... when the emissions are When traffic is also taken into account, there is an increase in emission reduction levels in both scopes (-42% and -57%, respectively). analysed by TU, there is a In relation to Scope 3, there is a 71% increase in absolute emissions, again decrease of 8%. mainly due to the emissions associated with LTO and passenger travel, revealing the influence of the increase in passengers at the airport.