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ITALY’S ACTION PLAN O N C O 2 E M I S S I O N S R E D U C T I O N EDITION 2021 ENAC Italian Civil Aviation Authority Viale Castro Pretorio, 118 00185 Rome – ITALY Main contacts Fabio Nicolai Aviation Regulation Central Director Ph. +39 06 44596235 [email protected] Andrea Marotta Air Transport & Environment Regulation Director Ph. +39 06 44596337 [email protected] Mark De Laurentiis Air Transport & Environment Regulation Ph. +39 06 44596XXX [email protected] Silvia Egoli Air Transport & Environment Regulation Dept. CAEP Member Ph. +39 06 44596252 [email protected] Alberto Anglade Airworthiness Regulation Dept. Action Plan Focal Point Ph. +39 06 44596744 [email protected] 2 Table of Contents 1. INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................... 5 2. CURRENT STATE OF AVIATION IN ITALY ..................................................... 7 2.0 Foreword ................................................................................................................................. 7 2.1 Airlines ..................................................................................................................................... 7 2.2 Airports .................................................................................................................................. 13 2.2.1 Italy’s current airport capacity .................................................................................... 16 2.3 Effects of Covid-19 in 2020 ............................................................................................... 17 3. EUROPEAN STATES’ ACTION PLANS ECAC/EU common section ............ 20 3.0 Executive summary .............................................................................................................. 20 3.0.1 Aircraft related technology ......................................................................................... 21 3.0.2 Sustainable Aviation Fuels .......................................................................................... 22 3.0.3 Improved Air Traffic Management ........................................................................... 22 3.0.4 Market Based Measures (MBMs) ............................................................................... 22 3.0.5 ECAC Scenarios for Traffic and CO2 Emissions .................................................... 23 3.1 Ecac baseline scenario and estimated benefits of implemented measures .................. 24 3.1.1 ECAC Baseline Scenario ............................................................................................. 24 3.1.2 ECAC Scenario with Implemented Measures, Estimated Benefits of Measures29 3.2 Actions taken collectively throughout Europe ................................................................ 32 3.2.1 Technology and Standard ........................................................................................... 32 3.2.2 Sustainable Aviation Fuels .......................................................................................... 35 3.3 Operational improvement ................................................................................................... 42 3.3.1 The EU's Single European Sky Initiative and SESAR ........................................... 42 3.3.2 Market-Based Measures............................................................................................... 47 3.3.3 Additional Measures .................................................................................................... 51 3.3.4 Supplemental Benefits for Domestic Sectors .......................................................... 59 APPENDIX A .............................................................................................................. 62 APPENDIX B .............................................................................................................. 65 4. NATIONAL MEASURES IN ITALY ................................................................... 68 4.0 Foreword ............................................................................................................................... 68 4.1 Historic emissions and baseline ......................................................................................... 68 4.2 National actions for sustainable development of Air Transport .................................. 70 4.2.1 Aircraft technology and Flight operations ................................................................ 70 4.2.2 Sustainable Aviation Fuels .......................................................................................... 73 4.2.3 National Research and Development ....................................................................... 77 3 4.2.4 New Technologies from Italian Industry ................................................................. 81 4.2.5 Air Traffic Management .............................................................................................. 86 4.2.6 ENAV’s Flight Efficiency Plan .................................................................................. 87 4.2.7 Airports and Infrastructure Use ............................................................................... 100 4.2.8 Focus on the major airport operators ..................................................................... 102 4.2.9 Capacity Building, Buddy and other initiatives ...................................................... 119 4.2.10 Emissions Reduction Impact of National Measures............................................. 121 4 1. INTRODUCTION Italy has been a member of ICAO since its foundation in 1944 and has always been represented in the Part 1 of the Council due to its longstanding engagement in the International Civil Aviation Regulatory body, its important industrial aeronautical achievements, its strong contribution to the development of safe and sustainable Air Transport. Italy has also participated to the CAEP - Committee for Aviation Environmental Protection, consulting Committee of the ICAO Council - since its constitution in 1983. Today, Italy has its experts inside the CAEP groups and task forces. In particular, they have recently contributed to the most challenging CAEP technical analyses such as the Standards on CO2 and CORSIA. Actually, they are engaged in the amendments of Annex 16 as regards Aircraft Noise certification plus the Standards on Emissions (CO2 and Particulate matters) and on the recently issued CORSIA scheme. Italy is also a member of the European Union and of the European Civil Aviation Conference (ECAC). ECAC is an intergovernmental covering the widest grouping of Member States1 of any European organization dealing with civil aviation. It is currently composed of 44 Member States, and was created in 1955. ECAC States share the view that the environmental impacts of the aviation sector must be mitigated, if aviation is to continue to be successful as an important facilitator of economic growth and prosperity, being an urgent need to achieve the ICAO goal of Carbon Neutral Growth from 2020 onwards (CNG2020), and to strive for further emissions reductions. Together, they fully support ICAO’s on-going efforts to address the full range of those impacts, including the key strategic challenge posed by climate change, for the sustainable development of international air transport. All ECAC States, as expressed in the 2016 Bratislava Declaration, support CORSIA effective implementation and have effectively engaged in CORSIA from the start of its pilot phase. Italy, like all of ECAC’s 44 States, is fully committed to and involved in the fight against climate change and works towards a resource-efficient, competitive and sustainable multimodal transport system. Italy has its experts in ECAC environmental Groups (EAEG - European Aviation Environmental Group and the ENVFORUM) whose activities deal with the environmental objectives foreseen by ICAO CAEP groups and TFs and is in charge of framing the European environmental strategy, taking the appropriate actions, following the provisions outlined by the European legislation and policy. In this light, Italy recognizes the value of each State preparing and submitting to ICAO an updated State Action Plan for CO2 emissions reductions as an important step towards the achievement of the global collective goals agreed since the 38th Session of the ICAO Assembly in 2013. In that context, it is the intention that all ECAC States submit to ICAO an Action 1 Albania, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Turkey, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom 5 plan. This is the action plan of Italy. Italy strongly supports the ICAO basket of measures as the key means to achieve ICAO’s CNG2020 target and shares the view of all ECAC States that a comprehensive approach to reducing aviation CO2 emissions is necessary, and that this should include: i. emission reductions at source, including European support to CAEP work, ii. research and development on emission reductions technologies, including public-private partnerships, iii. the development and deployment of low-carbon and sustainable alternative aviation fuels,