1st Annual ACI EUROPE Airport Environment Conference
"Managing Airports Sustainably"
Most airports are known for their runways rather than their recycling. Even fewer have a known ‘sustainability’ brand. And fewer still have a business model that puts ‘sustainability’ at the heart of their vision, strategic planning, or operational processes.
With airport operations under scrutiny for environmental, political or economic reasons, business as usual has become a less attractive option. One effect of this situation, coupled with the global downturn, has been to make airports think differently about the way they operate. As the aviation environmental debate has intensified, airports are realising that their environmental and financial performance cannot be mutually exclusive and needs to be sustainable.
This conference explores the links between efficient airport infrastructure and operations and sound environmental management, showing how this can lead an airport to become a more economic, operational, social, environmental and therefore sustainable business.
A self-contained workshop will also examine how airports promote and communicate their sustainability credentials, engaging both internal and external stakeholders. It will focus on Airport Carbon Accreditation, the first airport specific and independently-verified programme for managing carbon emissions from airport operations.
Confirmed speakers include:
Tuesday 24th November 2009
Opening Session — 09.00 - 10.00
Welcome address
- Olivier Jankovec, Director General, ACI EUROPE
“Lean and Green”: Finding New Solutions in Changing Economic Times
Penny Coates, Managing Director of Regional Airports, Manchester Airports Group
First working Session — 10.45 - 12.15
Clarifying and addressing the fundamental issues
Our changing climate – is it too late to save the planet?
Climate change has been called a greater threat to the world than international terrorism. How big a threat is climate change, what impacts will it have, who or what is responsible and what can be done to redress the situation? Hear from a meteorologist/scientist on what really is happening to the world’s climate.
Doug Johnson, Head of Transport Business, Met Office
Economic benefits of airports – the need for a sounder analytical framework
The economic benefits of airports – such as work and wealth creation – are difficult to quantify and are often challenged and rarely tested after the event. Hear from the first independent assessment of the key UK studies. What is left out of the equation and what needs to be recognised and incorporated in future work if such studies are to be credible to their intended audiences?
Dr David Gillingwater, Research Fellow, Loughborough University UK
Predicting and managing demand – the sustainability map of an airport
Predicting demand for air transport is a hazardous business in today’s economic climate. Yet this is one of the most crucial factors in determining the overall sustainability profile of an airport. How does an airport develop a long-term sustainability map given the predicted growth of aviation?
Peter Marx, Vice President of Environmental Management, Fraport
Second Working Session — 13.45 - 15.15
Meeting the challenge of sustainable airport infrastructure
Climate proofing: managing climate change risk and costs at airports:
Taking climate change effects into account in property and infrastructure investments is often referred to as ‘climate proofing’. Hear from an innovative airport group how it is safeguarding its functionality (capacity) by meeting the challenge of climate change adaptation and taking away lessons from the experience.
Olav Moswald Larsen, Senior Executive Adviser, Avinor
Shaping sustainable growth plans: airport planning, design and construction.
Learn how sustainability objectives can be delivered through the infrastructure modernisation chain, including utility and infrastructure design, and construction, to ensure that environmental impacts are clearly understood and mitigated. Hear from AENA about their strategic sustainability master plan for Barcelona La Prat airport.
Jose Manuel Hesse, Director of Environment, Aena
Putting in place sustainable management strategies: The LFV Experience
The different needs and impacts of water, waste, energy, transport, and information and communication technology can be combined effectively to bring about emissions reductions and reduce associated capital and operational costs. Hear from a leading airport on the sustainable management techniques that can be used to identify carbon and energy savings in existing operations.
Lena Wennberg, Environmental Strategy Manager, LFV
Third Working Session — 16.00 - 17.30
Making airport operations environmentally sustainable
Minimising the regulatory and health risks from airport operations and surface access
People living around, working at, or travelling to / from, an airport want to breathe air that is free from harmful pollutants generated by airport operations and surface access sources. What practical actions are being or can be taken by an airport and its partners to manage air quality to minimise the health risks and meet prescribed air quality limits, now and in the future? How can their effectiveness be measured? Hear from a congested European airport on the air quality strategies and action plans it deploys.
Giovanni Falsina, Environment and Airport Safety Manager, SEA S.P.A
Wednesday 25th November 2009
Fourth Working Session — 09.00 - 10.30
Improving airport efficiency and performance
Influencing good operational practice and sustainable behaviour
Delivery of training to airport and contractor staff can enable an airport to establish and manage environmental management systems and influence behaviour towards good operational and environmental practice. Hear a lighthearted review from an established environmental management consultant / other as to what does and can go wrong and why - if the focus and delivery of such training is misdirected or misunderstood.
Eve Anderton, WSP
Managing, auditing, tracking and communicating environmental performance
Environmental, carbon and energy auditing allow an airport to assess their impacts, processes, internal behaviours and exposure to reporting standards and legislation. Environmental / sustainability management systems provide appropriate frameworks to manage, audit, track and communicate airport sustainability performance and objectives. Hear about best practice from an environmental auditor / verifier.
- Olai Hjetland, Principal Consultant, Head of Department Transportation, DNV Business Assurance
A sustainable business is more than a philosophy – it’s a mandate
What are the most appropriate business models for delivering an environmentally sound, yet economically robust airport business? What makes an airport a sustainable business? Another industry or transport sector representative provides his / her views.
René Estermann, CEO, Myclimate
Fifth Working Session — 11.15 - 12.45
Airport Carbon Accreditation Workshop
A practical workshop led by WSP Environmental and Energy, the Administrator of the ACI EUROPE Airport Carbon Accreditation (ACA) to assist existing and prospective candidates for accreditation. It will cover topics from why join through requirements and the application process to actual certification and its business benefits. A help desk will be available to assist those airports with specific enquires. The workshop is open to airports who have pre-registered their interest, whether registered for Airport Exchange or not.
* To be confirmed
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