A record number of participants led to 12 airports receiving Platinum, Gold, and Silver awards in New Delhi for outstanding Sustainable Energy Initiatives.
Sunshine Coast Airport has announced a new partnership with Containers for Change, implementing the container refund scheme throughout the Airport terminal. Passengers can now dispose of bottles and containers in specially marked bins with the first round of money raised supporting Coolum and North Shore Coast Care.
Auckland Airport’s work to cut carbon emissions has been recognised with a Level 4 Airport Carbon Accreditation from Airports Council International (ACI), putting it among the world’s leading airports in terms of sustainability.
When you grab coffee and a snack at Auckland Airport, you can do so knowing there are positive plans in place to tackle the challenge of waste. Coffee grinds, food scraps and even compostable cups will be put to good use, with the airport expanding its landside* food waste composting scheme at the domestic terminal to now include some parts of the landside food and beverage areas of the international terminal.
Kansai Airports is excited to announce the “7-Second Bottle-to-Bottle Challenge in KIX”(*1) to be held at Kansai International Airport (KIX) to promote closed-loop recycling(*2) of used PET bottles.
The ACA program requires the monitoring of the airport carbon footprint and the implementation of actions to reduce the footprint over the years. To achieve its targets, the airport has invested heavily in highly efficient chiller systems for the central air conditioning, replaced all light sources with LED technologies, or reduced the use of diesel ground generators.
Wellington Airport has achieved Level 2 Certification from the Airport Carbon Accreditation programme for 2023, recognising ongoing reductions in carbon emissions.
The Airports Council International's Airport Excellence Programme (APEX) review on environment was successfully conducted at Bahrain International Airport (BAH) from 3-7 December 2023.
ACI Asia-Pacific & Middle East shared its sustainability updates at the ICAO Committee on Aviation Environmental Protection (CAEP) Working Group 2 meeting in Bangkok, Thailand.
Ten frontrunner airports certified at the new Level 5 of the Airport Carbon Accreditation programme, having achieved net zero for emissions under their control and affirmed a strategic commitment to achieve decarbonisation across all scopes by 2050.
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