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Swedavia’s Göteborg Landvetter Airport has been named a extremely recommended airport in the Eco-Innovation Award class by the industry organisation Airports Council Worldwide Europe (ACI), which ranks the main European airports in environmental and climate work.

Here’s the 2nd-perfect stage of award and is additional recognition of the diligent work referring to aviation’s green transition that Swedavia is doing for fossil-free aviation at its ten airports. Göteborg Landvetter, Sweden’s 2nd-largest airport, modified into selected for this accolade from among 500 airports in 50 worldwide locations in Europe.

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Swedavia is a world leader in operating airports with the least that it’s seemingly you’ll also hold of environmental impact. In December 2023, Göteborg Landvetter Airport modified into also one amongst the main airports on this planet, and alongside with Malmö Airport the supreme one in the Nordic space, to bask in the very supreme certification (stage 5) within the worldwide accreditation framework Airport Carbon Accreditation (ACA). This framework persistently evaluates the general climate work of airports, basically based completely in share on the Paris Settlement.

“It is for positive particularly practical to glimpse Swedavia and Göteborg Landvetter being extremely recommended in the Eco-Innovation Award from ACI. The general work we possess executed collectively to contribute to fossil-free aviation and fossil-free airports continues to endure fruit. We bask in intensive and progressive environmental and climate transition work and possess adapted our non-public operations by the utilization of HVO100 for our autos, green electricity for the general airport and fossil-free gasoline, as an illustration. At the identical time, we are now also helping our companions at Landvetter accept a smoother transition through our partnership thought. Now we possess an impressive palette in our overall transition work, and it is for positive encouraging that that is being recognised,” says Anna Strömwall, Airport Director of Göteborg Landvetter Airport at Swedavia.

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Swedavia grew to become fossil-free in its non-public airport operations at all ten airports as early as 2020, making it the main airport operator on this planet to bask in that. The next operate is for all floor operations at the airports that are performed by other operators to also be fossil-free by the tip of 2025. The lengthy-time frame operate is for all Swedish airports to be fossil-free for domestic flights by 2030 and for worldwide flights by 2045.

Caitlin DiMare-Oliver