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18-Mar-2010 SustainAvia invited to speak at the 3rd Annual Eco-Aviation Conference in Washington D.C. in June 2010
07-Mar-2010 VerifAvia, a verification body of greenhouse gas for the aviation sector, has been established
07-Mar-2010 The Eurocontrol tool for small emitters is in process of approval
In The Press
28-Jun-2010 IATA criticizes lack of progress on volcanic ash issues in Europe [ATW]
28-Jan-2010 The solid business case for cutting carbon emissions [BusinessDay]
06-Dec-2009 The implications of the EU's ETS [Aircraft Commerce]
11-Oct-2010 ICAO members reach historic agreement on climate change [ATW]
12-Aug-2010 In a critical year for the Aviation EU ETS, European emissions fall in first half of 2010 compared to 2009 [GreenAir Online]
09-Aug-2010 EU ETS fears slow down aviation verification process [Flight International]
CARING Project
Project CARING (Contribution of Airlines for the Reduction of Industry Nuisances and Gases) aims at understanding how airlines deal with current and future environmental constraints (emissions and noise).
Project CARING - which started early 2010 - was the only airline-related topic in the first call for projects. The consortium is led by OpenAirlines and includes airlines (Airlinair, Transavia and the TUI Group: Thomson Airways, TUIfly, Corsairfly, etc.), an airline trade association (FNAM), a university & research lab (ENAC), and expert SMEs (ENVISA, Icon Consulting and SustainAvia).
The goal of CARING is fourfold:
- Gather and analyze FDR data from a wide variety of actual flights to evaluate their current environmental impact (CO2, NOx, CO, HC emissions and noise) and compare them with what could be obtained with optimized trajectories of future aircrafts.
- Survey current and future environmental constraints worldwide.
- Understand the costs of environmental constraints for airlines, how they compare to other costs, and how airlines adjust their strategies or operations to these constraints.
- Build an economic model for air transport that takes into account the environmental constraints.
The consortium invested almost 1M€ in two years to pursue this research.
SustainAvia focused on the survey of environmental constraints in the aviation industry (EU ETS, APD, eco-tax, carbon tax, airport emissions tax, engine tax, etc.) and on the analysis of how airlines cope with these constraints from a business, operational and strategic point of view.
Details of the different Work Packages:
- WP3 - Trajectory data: analyse real trajectory data from airlines to compare environmental performance of actual flights with optimal trajectory. Contact OpenAirlines for more information.
- WP4.1 - Survey existing international environmental constraints and rules. Contact us for more information.
- WP4.2 - Survey potential future environmental constraints and rules. Contact Icon Consulting for more information.
- WP5.1 - Survey airline operations costs. Contact OpenAirlines for more information.
- WP5.2 - Survey airline strategies to reduce environmental constraints. Contact us for more information.
- WP6 - Economic modelling: create an economic model of the impact of the environment on airlines. Contact ENAC for more information.
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