Andreas Hardeman Assistant Director Environment

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Towards carbon neutral growth what does it
mean for travel tourism?
Andreas HardemanAssistant Director Environment
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The future is bright The future is Asia
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Emerging challengesfor Asia

• Travel and tourism
• Development and environment
• Income disparities
• Local economies
• Eco-tourism
• Air freight

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Aviations carbon footprint
is growing
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We must become an industry
that does not pollute
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Carbon neutral growth
Traffic, CO
emissions and fuel efficiency
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Indexed to equal 100 in 1993
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Carbon neutral growth
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NOTE relative size of coloured stabilization
wedges and time-scales are for illustrative
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2005
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Its all about fuel
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Potential building blocks
for a carbon-free future

• Fuel cells
• Solar energy
• Bio-fuels
• Synthetic fuels

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IATA 4 pillar strategy

• Technology
• Operations
• Infrastructure
• Economic measures

Some practical examples
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The IATA strategy
Technology

• 70 fuel efficiency improvement in 40 years
• Latest designs use less
• than 3.0 litres/100 pax km
• Lighter, stronger materials
• Better designs
• Further boost RD
• Accelerate new technologies
• Opportunity for emerging industries to leapfrog
  todays technologies

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The IATA strategy
Operations

• Fuel management
• E.g. Reduce weight and increase load factors
• Flight procedures navigation
• E.g. Continuous Descent Approaches
• IATA Fuel Campaign 2006
• Over US 1.8 billion savings
• 15 million tonnes of CO2

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The IATA strategy
Infrastructure

• Every minute saves 160kg of CO2
• Over 350 routes were shortened in 2006
• Saving 6 million tonnes CO2
• Recent example BOBCAT
• 12,000 tonnes fuel
• 50,000 tonnes CO2

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Bay of Bengal Cooperative Air Traffic Flow
Management Advisory System (BOBCAT)
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The IATA strategy
Economic measures

• Avoid taxes
• Support positive measures

• Emissions trading
• Fair, global, voluntary
• Carbon offsets
• Credible, transparent

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Travel and tourism is everyones business And
solutions must involve everyone
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Thank you
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