NATS recently announced that it is on course to achieve an average 10% reduction of CO2 per flight by 2020. This impressive reduction has been achieved by improved internal sustainability procedures, with staff commuting less, recycling more and using alternative energy sources such as solar power wherever possible. However, the major impact has been made [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

As a Brit living in Geneva I always enjoy my trips to London. This week I popped into the Science Museum to see its exhibition on aviation and the environment called ‘Does Flying Cost the Earth?‘ I hadn’t been to the Science Museum since I was an eight year-old living in London and I had [...]