Airports Council International (ACI) has awarded the highest level for airport sustainability to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, Eindhoven Airport and Rotterdam The Hague Airport. The three Royal Schiphol Group airports are among the first 10 airports worldwide to reach this level. To be eligible for this ACI accreditation, airports must have reduced their own CO2 emissions in 2022 by 90% or more compared to 2010.
ACI has added a new higher level to their CO2 benchmark, level 5, which demonstrates the extent to which airports worldwide are reducing the CO2 emissions from their own, ground-related activities. Airports that are awarded the level 5 certification have not only reduced their emissions by 90% but have net-zero emissions.
Wilma van Dijk, director of Rotterdam The Hague Airport and member of the Royal Schiphol Group management team, said: “It's great that three Dutch airports received this recognition for their efforts in the field of sustainability. And that they belong to the first ten worldwide to get this accreditation. “We want to hold on to that; we are continuing to reduce emissions. Not only at our airports, for which we were given this certification, but in the whole aviation sector. This is how we are connecting the Netherlands with the rest of the world in an increasingly sustainable way.”
Denise Pronk, head of sustainability at Royal Schiphol Group, said: “This accreditation is a significant milestone and it's in line with our ambition to be the most sustainable and high-quality airports in the world.
“We lowered the CO2 emissions produced by our own activities by 90% compared to 2010. But we're not stopping there; we continue to work towards emission-free airports in 2030. Schiphol and partners' electric ground equipment fleet is getting bigger and bigger, we run entirely on Dutch wind power, and the terminal and our buildings are gradually being taken off the gas grid. At the same time, we continue to work on making aviation more sustainable.”
