Brussels South Charleroi Airport introduces Eurocontrol’s Collaborative Environmental Management
Brussels South Charleroi Airport and Eurocontrol, along with Ryanair, TUI fly, Air Corsica, Skeyes, the Belgian aerospace company SABCA and the airport association for Belgium’s Wallonia SOWAER, have signed an agreement kicking off Collaborative Environmental Management (CEM) on the airport site. The agreement is to jointly reduce the environmental impact of airport operations. The three top priorities of the partnership are to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, reduce noise pollution and improve air quality around the airport.
Initiated by Eurocontrol, with the support of ACI EUROPE, the Collaborative Environmental Management specification is designed to help airports and their operational partners cooperate with one another and work together to identify, develop and implement effective solutions to fulfil their sustainability objectives.
As part of the CEM, the partners involved have created an environmental committee that will focus on making the airport carbon neutral by 2050. The midpoint target is to reduce the airports’ CO2 emissions by 35% compared to 2019 by 2030.
Similarly, the partnership will work to define performance indicators designed to analyse the fulfilment of the environmental objectives established between the different stakeholders; and to promote a better understanding of the interdependence between the airport, the airlines and the air navigation service providers as a whole by facilitating the exchange of knowledge and expertise between the different stakeholders involved in CEM. Additionally, the partners will support environmental certification processes such as ISO 14001:2015 or BSCA’s involvement in the Airport Carbon Accreditation scheme. Overall, the agreement centres on supporting the airport’s growth while reducing its impact on the environment.
