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39 144 14 54 23 ANNUAL REPORT 2018-2019 HELPLINE: +44 845 868 2708 [email protected] The designations employed and the presentation of the material in this publication do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Airports Council International Europe concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city of area or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. Photos: copyright belongs to the airport(s) listed in the captions (when applicable). TABLE OF CONTENTS Welcome to the Annual Report 4 1 Executive summary 6 2 The global context 8 What is Airport Carbon Accreditation? 8 10 years of Airport Carbon Accreditation 14 How is Airport Carbon Accreditation governed? 16 What are the benefits from accreditation? 18 3 Trends 20 Global 20 Europe 23 Asia-Pacific 25 North America 27 Latin America & the Caribbean 29 Africa 31 4 Carbon neutrality 33 5 Year 10 programme developments 39 6 Case studies 42 7 Outlook 52 8 Methodology 54 9 Accreditations list 56 WELCOME TO THE ANNUAL REPORT Airport Carbon Accreditation is the global standard for carbon management in the airport industry. The programme was launched in Europe in 2009 and since 2014 it covers all ACI regions. As part of the global efforts in climate mitigation, Airport Carbon Accreditation supports the airport community in reducing its carbon footprint, demonstrating its achievements and sharing knowledge and best practices. The Annual Report, which is published in the fall of each year, covers the previous reporting year (i.e., mid-May to mid-May) and presents the programme’s evolution and achievements. We are very pleased to present this report for programme year 10, which runs from 16 May 2018 to 15 May 2019. The report focuses on key achievements and developments, the most significant global and regional trends, and representative case studies. 2019 marks 10 years since the launch of Airport Carbon Accreditation. Thanks to the close cooperation between airports, verifiers, the Airport Carbon Accreditation team and many other stakeholders, the programme continues to grow, with 37 new airports being accredited, reaching 274 airports in total, and to evolve: Airport Carbon Accreditation introduced new offsetting requirements and recommendations raising the offsetting standards in the airport industry, updated the programme Guidance Document providing additional clarity, and continued exploring avenues to enhance the programme’s alignment with the ambition of the Paris Agreement. Our vision is to maintain the dynamic growth of Airport Carbon Accreditation, engaging airports from all regions in carbon reduction efforts, while keeping the programme aligned with evolving scientific and political developments in relation to climate change. 4 Our“ vision is to maintain the dynamic growth of Airport Carbon Accreditation, engaging airports from all regions in carbon reduction efforts. ” LA REUNION ROLAND GARROS AIRPORT / RUN 1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 274 accredited airports 37 new accreditations 16% growth since the previous year 43% of passengers welcomed by accredited airports 68 number of countries with accredited airports 49 accredited airports upgrading to a more stringent level of accreditation -322,297 TONNES (- 4.9%) aggregate scope 1 & 2 CO2e absolute emissions reductions from airports at all levels KGS -0.09 (- 4.3%) scope 1 & 2 CO2e relative emissions reductions per passenger from airports at all levels 50 carbon neutral airports -710,673 TONNES of CO2e offset 6 144 in Europe 39 54 in North America in Asia-Pacific 14 23 in Africa in Latin America & Caribbean 89 Level 1 I Mapping 77 Level 2 I Reduction 58 Level 3 I Optimisation 50 Level 3+ I Neutrality QUEEN ALIA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT / AMM 2 THE GLOBAL CONTEXT In October 2018, the Intergovernmental Panel on operations, for instance floods at Kansai, Hong Kong Climate Change (IPCC) released a Special Report and Cochin airports in 2018. These events make on “Global Warming of 1.5oC”, concluding that climate change particularly tangible for the aviation business-as-usual climate policy would lead to a sector and highlight even more the importance of 3°C temperature increase by the end of the century, bold climate action. It also means that in addition with catastrophic consequences. Limiting global to mitigation efforts, an increasing attention to warming to 1.5°C would require “unprecedented” the adaptation to climate change is required, as and “deep emissions reductions in all sectors” highlighted by the 2018 ACI World Policy Brief – and a decrease in global CO2 emissions “well Airport’s Resilience and Adaptation to a Changing before 2030”. Overall, global net CO2 emissions Climate. would need to decline by about 45% by 2030 compared to 2010, reaching net zero by 2050. Against the background of new scientific findings, These findings have confirmed the importance of extreme weather events and societal value change, a rigorous implementation of international climate it is all the more important that airport operators instruments, in particular the Paris Agreement, due worldwide continue making efforts to reduce their to enter into force as of 2020, and for international emissions and where possible, enhance them. In aviation emissions, ICAO’s Carbon Offsetting particular, this means exploring opportunities to and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation support emissions reductions from airlines and other (CORSIA) under which emissions reporting by stakeholders airports interact with, building on their aircraft operators has already started. role of interface between a variety of different actors from and beyond the aviation sector. For Airport In addition to CORSIA, the aviation sector is Carbon Accreditation, this implies evolving in a way continuously working on reducing its emissions that encourages and recognises such increased through more efficient aircraft technologies, the ambition, while continuing addressing the needs improvement of operational procedures and use of airports that are in the beginning of their carbon of sustainable aviation fuels. Due to the increasing management journey. air transport demand, these achievements have, however, so far not reversed the trend of growth What is Airport Carbon Accreditation? in absolute aviation emissions. This leads to an unprecedented pressure on the aviation sector Airport Carbon Accreditation is the global standard to step up its climate action, with its social and for carbon management in the airport industry. The economic benefits being questioned in some aim is to encourage and enable airports to implement countries – for instance, with the emergence of best practices in carbon management. It has been a “flying shame” movement in Europe, calling to developed in line with international standards, stop flying in order to save the planet. including the Greenhouse Gas Protocol and ISO 14064, and is reviewed and updated accordingly as At the same time, the increasing frequency of these standards evolve. The programme focuses on extreme weather events over the last years has CO2 emissions, as they comprise the large majority also directly impacted aviation infrastructure and of airport emissions, while independent verification 8 ensures the programme’s credibility. Airports can LEVEL 3 become accredited at four progressively ambitious Optimisation requires fulfilment of all level 2 levels of accreditation. accreditation requirements, development of a more extensive carbon footprint to include specific scope LEVEL 1 3 emissions and the formulation of a Stakeholder Mapping requires a policy commitment to Engagement Plan to promote wider airport-based emissions reduction endorsed by top management emissions’ reductions. and the development of a carbon footprint for emissions under the airport’s control (i.e., scope 1 LEVEL 3+ & 2 emissions). Neutrality requires fulfilment of all level 3 accreditation requirements and offsetting of residual LEVEL 2 emissions under the airport’s control that cannot be Reduction requires the fulfilment of all level 1 reduced. accreditation requirements, formulation of a carbon emissions reduction target, development of a Figure 1 presents the main accreditation Carbon Management Plan to achieve the target and requirements and Figure 2 an indicative classification annual reduction of emissions under the airport’s of the main airport related emissions. control (i.e., scope 1 & 2 emissions) versus the three-year rolling average. FIGURE 1: MAIN REQUIREMENTS OF AIRPORT CARBON ACCREDITATION Airport Carbon Accreditation I Annual Report 2018-2019 9 FIGURE 2: INDICATIVE CLASSIFICATION OF AIRPORT RELATED EMISSIONS 10 Airport Carbon Accreditation I Annual Report 2018-2019 11 FIGURE 3: AIRPORT CARBON ACCREDITATION MILESTONES YEAR 5 (2013/2014) YEAR 1 Extension to the (2009/2010) YEAR 3 African region (2011/2012) Launched in Europe Extension to the Asia-Pacific region 17 43 59 84 102 YEAR 2 (2010/2011) YEAR 4 (2012/2013) 12 YEAR 9 (2017/2018) YEAR 7 (2015/2016) 125 156 189 237 274 YEAR 6 YEAR 10 (2014/2015) (2018/2019) Extension to the North American 2019 marks 10 years and the Latin American & the since the launch of Airport Caribbean regions YEAR 8 Carbon Accreditation. New (2016/2017) offsetting requirements and recommendations were introduced raising the offsetting standards in the airport industry. 49 airports upgraded to a more demanding accreditation level; marking the highest rate of upgrades since the programme’s launch. There are 50 carbon neutral airports across the world. Airport