Christchurch Airport has taken another step forward in its sustainability journey, becoming the first airport in the world to adopt a new high-tech emissions tracking platform that will aid its climate action.
A key part of Christchurch Airport’s sustainability journey has been tracking and reducing its own on-the-ground airport operational emissions.
Traditionally, flight emissions data has been gathered annually, and split into categories such a domestic, regional and international. With the advanced PACE Airports platform, Christchurch Airport can read emissions generated from flights in greater detail, allowing data-led conversations and longer-term transition requirements for airline partners.
The platform delivers up-to-date emissions data covering over 99 per cent of commercial flights worldwide, tracking more than 370,000 individual routes, and utilising over 10 billion flight data points. The system calculates emissions down to the type of engines an aircraft is using and can be tailored to local conditions.
Claire Waghorn, sustainability transition leader at Christchurch Airport, said: “Our key focus on this sustainability journey has been reducing our own operational emissions and then seeking to support our wider sector reductions. The insight from this platform offers us data to consider the aviation-related emissions across the entire airport operations.”
Christchurch Airport is the first airport in the world to adopt the PACE Airports platform, which is developed by Fexco, an Irish global fintech and financial services company. The platform is currently used by leading banks and aviation financiers to track aviation-related emissions across the global aviation sector.
