Green airports are growing

The number of green airports is increasing: In recent days, the aviation sector has started to put its hands under the control of carbon emissions that threaten the world from the best.
-Istanbul Carbon Summit Organizing Committee Chair Assoc. Dr. Etem Karakaya: "The initiatives of the aviation industry, which is rapidly growing in the world, on environmental solutions are promising."
"The amount of emission caused by a person flying between Istanbul and New York is the same as the amount of emissions caused by the same person using fuel for heating for a year"
Istanbul - Environmental studies of airline companies and airports intensify every day. With the contributions of the aviation industry, the Istanbul Carbon Summit is held between April 3-5, 2014, hosted by Istanbul Technical University.
As climate change started to affect the world, issues such as global warming and the increase in greenhouse emissions started to pose a threat to future generations. The seriousness of this problem led to a public awareness of solutions. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change also outlines the extent of this problem. The 3-5 April 2014 is hosted by Istanbul Technical University and the Istanbul Carbon Summit is organized with the contributions of many ministries and institutions.
In this way, many important experts and scientists are brought together to discuss the carbon trade, the current problems and their solutions, which will become an important issue after the Kyoto Protocol, and to raise new public awareness and create new strategies. Carbon Istanbul Summit this regard, not only for Turkey but also predicts significant consequences for other countries.
With the EU Commission's decision in 2012, the company had to pay a certain amount of carbon tax to the airline companies. A number of countries such as China and India opposed this decision. With climate change and greenhouse gas emissions becoming a major problem, environmental policies around the world have begun to be reviewed.
- hava It pollutes air as long as one year in a flight -
Chairman of Istanbul Carbon Summit Organizing Committee Assoc. Dr. Etem Karakaya stated that the global carbon markets in the world are developing and growing rapidly and the importance of the studies on the development of sustainable carbon management, emission trade and clean technologies has been understood with increasing public awareness. Karakaya stated that the world's rapidly growing aviation sector contributed significantly to the increase of greenhouse gas emissions, and that urgent measures were taken by the European Union and the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO).
“Traveling by air travel causes serious greenhouse gas emissions of individuals. For example, the amount of emission caused by a person flying between Istanbul and New York is the same as the amount of emission caused by the same person using fuel for heating for a year. As the EU attaches importance to this issue, it plans to include all airline companies arriving and departing from its own airspace to the European Union Emission Trading System. Serious concrete sanctions will be imposed on this issue until 2016. This situation closely concerns all airline companies of our country, especially Turkish Airlines. "
Emphasizing that with the Istanbul Carbon Summit, they aim to draw attention to carbon emissions in the aviation industry as in many other industries, Karakaya said, “In a developing and livable world, emissions in the air must be reduced as well as aboveground”.
In Turkey aviation sector, which began in December of Civil Aviation General Directorate of 2009 years, in 2010 developed in making new arrangements "Green Airport Project" The number of yl modern and environmentally friendly organizations is increasing with each passing day. With this project, it is aimed to reduce the damages that can be given to the nature and people, if possible, to eliminate these damages completely, while the applied Solid Waste Management is planned to restore various wastes to the nature.
- The number of green airports is 11-
As a result of the cooperation with TSE, UM Green Airport Certificate yapılan is given to the related institutions that provide conditions such as establishing the TS EN ISO 14001 Environmental Management System and verifying the Greenhouse Gas Inventory Report according to TS ISO 14064-3 standard. In addition to these conditions, Adiyaman, Amasya Merzifon, Balıkesir Koca Seyit, Bursa Yenisehir, Elazig, Erzurum, Hatay, Isparta Suleyman Demirel, Nevsehir Cappadocia, Sanliurfa GAP and Usak airports were entitled to receive mas Green Institution Title bazı. Thus, the number of green airports increased to 11. In addition, in order to be encouraged, companies that receive this title are given discounts on transactions such as operating authorization certificate, license and certificate, etc., if they use the logo specified in the project. Again, the employees of the relevant organizations are given various trainings on the subject, creating awareness and awareness about the environment.
Especially with the increase of inspections on the airways, the implementation of dissuasive penalties and the reduction of service tariffs provided significant contributions to the aviation industry in our country. Turkish Airlines has also achieved a new ground by using new aircraft models developed for this purpose. With the new aircraft models used, 4 reduction in the cost of fuel provides; 900 tonnes reduction and duty capability increased by 100 nautical miles.