Each airport faces different challenges, but how do you ensure that the 214 native animal species and the wider biodiversity are not harmed by aviation? Rodrigo Tavares from VINCI Airports told International Airport Review’s Eve De Clerk about how Salvador Bahia Airport manages such a diverse challenge.
What steps were taken to achieve the level 1 ACA?
The VINCI Airports’ AirPact environmental strategy establishes shared goals for all the airports in our network between now and 2020 that go beyond simply complying with different regulations in force in every country. One of these goals is to obtain and keep our Airport Carbon Accreditation (ACA). For Level 1 ACA, the first important action we took at Salvador Bahia Airport, which VINCI Airports has operated since 2018, was to set an internal challenge that targeted a certification during our first operational year.
After that, we received training from VINCI Airports Headquarters Environmental Department and committed to map and to reduce the airport’s carbon footprint on the Salvador Bahia Airport Environmental Policy.
Before mapping, we built a team for this process involving all the areas related to it such as the department of purchase, finance, maintenance, operation, communication, IT and environment. From these departments we appointed a project leader, responsible to develop our carbon emission management system.