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 [...]

This week the aviation industry has had its focus on developing alternative energy both on the ground and in the air. East Midlands Airport announced plans to have four giant wind turbines built by the end of this year, which will be used to generate electricity for the airport. The turbines will generate 900 kilowatt [...]

In an opinion piece in this morning’s South China Morning Post, Cathay Pacific Airways chief executive Tony Tyler made the point that the carbon emissions of the aviation industry must be tackled at a global level: "In recent years, aviation has shown itself to be willing to face up to its environmental impact and has [...]

Before the Greener Skies conference even starts, we have some news from the Hong Kong Civil Aviation Department. They have redesigned a piece of the airspace they control in a way that will shave 14 minutes off all flights arriving from Europe, Southern China, the Middle East and South East Asia. They are doing this [...]

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 [...]

Just over a year ago, at the Aviation & Environment Summit 2008, a group of the biggest names in the aviation industry gathered in Geneva and produced a commitment to aviation action on climate change. The cornerstone goal of that commitment was a pathway to carbon neutral growth. At the time, no one knew how [...]

It’s Earth Day all over the world and businesses everywhere are making green announcements – ‘tis the season for them, I guess! One such announcement came recently from the US domestic airline Virgin America, which has voluntarily joined the Climate Registry and is reporting its carbon dioxide emissions. There are a number of other carriers [...]

It is a peculiarity of the travel industry that, just as everyone else is winding down for the holiday season, we are at our busiest time of the year. Over the next few days, millions of people will fly to see loved ones all over the world. Then they will fly back again. Check-in agents, [...]

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 [...]

… and the very first post on the blog that discusses the environmental impact of flying. First things first. What is this blog about? At enviro.aero we’ve been looking at ways to get the message out about aviation and the environment. There’s a lot of discussion online, and while most of it’s constructive, not all of it is.  We [...]