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London Stansted reports 66% reduction in carbon footprint

London Stansted has published its latest corporate responsibility report, highlighting several successes in the first year of Manchester Airports Group’s (MAG) ownership of the airport. These include reducing its carbon footprint by 66%, diverting 93% of waste from landfill, and trialling new technologies to improve aircraft performance on set departure routes.

The return of Climate Change

With the COP20 conference soon to take place in Lima, political focus is returning to the issue of Climate Change. The economic and financial crisis, the Occupy movement that followed, and other issues, had taken the light away from the issue over the past five years, but it’s firmly centre stage again. Report by Inês Rebelo. Additional reporting by Elliott Bailey.

European aviation’s challenge: accommodating traffic growth sustainably

Lessons taken from the development of large-scale airport projects with sustainability at the heart – such as London Heathrow’s new, environmentally sound Terminal 2 – make for brilliant learning for other international airports and the industry as a whole.

Aviation industry leads the way in addressing climate change

The 38th ICAO Assembly resulted in an historic agreement on addressing aviation’s global carbon emissions. Here, we examine what was at stake, the results of negotiations and the implications for the industry.

Airport industry carbon standard takes on another continent

With aviation emissions back in news, due to ICAO’s quest to put in place a global system to reduce airline emissions, we report on the airport industry’s update on its own voluntary climate change initiative, Airport Carbon Accreditation. In the past 4 years, the programme has gathered steady momentum, expanding beyond its initial European focus, to include airports in Asia, Australia, the Gulf and most recently, Africa. Report by Elliot Bailey.