Making a green transition at Christchurch International Airport

Piers Locke and Claire Waghorn
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Piers Locke: Climate Change and Sustainability Consultant, Solutions for Sustainable Futures, New Zealand
Claire Waghorn: Christchurch International Airport, New Zealand

Journal of Airport Management, 2024, vol. 18, issue 3, 273-288

Abstract: Commitments to rapidly reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from aviation are growing stronger, stimulating efforts to meet net zero targets. As critical infrastructure for air travel, airports obviously have an important role to play in making the transition away from fossil fuels. This requires major organisational change, operational innovation and future planning for low carbon and zero emission travel. New Zealand’s Christchurch International Airport has taken a pioneering lead, developing a transformational agenda, achieving global recognition for its emissions reductions and mobilising to build renewable energy infrastructure. This paper reports on research commissioned to assess the airport’s journey toward a green transition. It discusses how the airport made sustainability integral to its business purpose and organisational culture, how it developed a Green Transition Plan, and how it has raised sustainability on the agenda, locally, nationally and internationally. It also reports the airport’s development of a renewable energy precinct and its partnerships for the future implementation of low emission travel powered by renewable electricity and green hydrogen.

Keywords: airport sustainability; emissions reductions; renewable energy; energy transition; sustainable aviation; net zero (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: M1 M10 R4 R40 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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