Last month, Hong Kong International Airport launched its Carbon Reduction Programmes, a series of initiatives that bring together different parties across the airport towards a common goal – reducing emissions per passenger by 25% by 2015. Now, 25% is a pretty good goal, but to do it by 2015 is excellent! They have launched a [...]

I have had a few questions recently from people wondering about recycling waste from food services on board flights. I know a huge number of airlines have very active on board recycling programmes, I know lots of airports worldwide have in-terminal programmes (some very innovative, as demonstrated by the Seattle Tacoma Airport video below), but [...]

The picture above shows Neil Robinson and Penny Coates (Managing Director) of East Midlands Airport in the UK  planting the first seedlings in a new willow tree plantation – the first in a UK airport. These trees will be used as a sustainable source of fuel to power a bio-mass boiler which will heat their [...]

Today’s Guest Blogger is Tom Budd, a PhD student in the Department of Civil and Building Engineering at Loughborough University in the United Kingdom. Tom is completing a PhD thesis investigating future strategies for reducing the environmental impact of surface access travel to UK airports. The aviation industry cannot be accused of resting on its [...]

I have just returned from a holiday in Jordan and Lebanon (a recommended holiday destination by the way) and was impressed to see green landing techniques being trialled and used at Beirut Airport. One of the airlines leading the way with these new, more efficient, operational techniques in the Middle East is Emirates. Many people [...]

I’m at the ACI Europe Annual Meeting in Manchester, where the European airports association has just launched its Airport Carbon Accreditation programme. This is a significant step in the standardisation of emissions reduction across airports and follows a goal set down by ACI for its airports worldwide to move towards carbon neutral operations. The programme [...]

Satellite images of our world, aerial photographs and maps can be fascinating to look at. They are also really good ways of explaining things. Take our recently-launched enviro.aero Google Maps layer. On it, we have positioned the case studies from enviro.aero in the countries and cities in which the aviation environmental projects are occurring. We [...]