Warsaw Airport set to reduce CO2 emissions
PR dla Zagranicy
John Beauchamp
19.07.2011 12:38
Warsaw Airport has joined a European-wide programme in an effort to reduce CO2 emissions, meaning all vehicles, air-conditioners and generators will be scrutinised in terms of energy efficiency.
“We have joined the Airport Carbon Accreditation programme,” the airport’s spokesman Przemyslaw Przybylski told the PAP news agency, adding that the airport has “started to draw up an inventory of all sources of CO2 and other gases which are harmful for the atmosphere.”
Apart from running diagnostics tests on energy generators, Przybylski stated that in the future the airport will also change its fleet of vehicles to run on electric or hybrid power.
The Airport Carbon Accreditation programme has been in operation since 2009, and takes in 22 airports from 12 European countries, accounting for 26 percent of air passenger traffic in the EU.
Warsaw’s Chopin Airport is the first in the region to join the CO2 reduction programme, which has managed to reduce carbon emissions by over 410,000 tonnes to date since starting two years ago.
Figures from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimate that air transport causes 2 percent of CO2 emissions globally, of which 5 percent is from airports. (jb)