Like all other modes of transport, aviation has both an environmental and a climate impact. Aviation today accounts for 2-3 per cent of global air pollution. Naviair is committed to ensuring that the environmental and climate impacts in our part of the aviation value chain are reduced. We therefore continuously strive to reduce the impact of our activities by developing our procedures and technology.

Naviair plays an active part in helping to reduce noise at and around the airports at which we are responsible for ATM. Noise inconvenience is reduced through traffic procedures as well as landing and take-off restrictions at these airports.

Aviation accounts for approximately 2 per cent of global CO2 emissions (IPCC 2007). Naviair helps to reduce CO2 and other polluting gases by continuously developing efficiency-improving procedures and infrastructure systems. As a result, aircraft take the most direct route to their destination and fly at the most fuel-efficient altitude. Aviation safety must naturally always be given top priority in ATM. Naviair has succeeded in optimising its ATM in the last few decades while maintaining the highest safety standards.

We optimise our ATM by prioritising a service-minded culture, developing efficient traffic concepts and making flexible use of airspace. Against this background, we use the most efficiency-improving and climate-friendly traffic concepts recommended by the European aviation organisations.

Naviair’s climate-friendly performance was documented in 2009, for example, when Eurocontrol carried out a survey of our concept for departures from Copenhagen Airport. The concept means that approximately 95 per cent of departing flights are given permission to deviate from the so-called Standard Instrument Departure (SID) procedure. Instead, they use Naviair’s unique Continuous Climb Departure (CCD) procedure, where aircraft are given permission to climb directly to their preferred cruising level and to head directly for their destination as quickly as possible during the departure procedure. Eurocontrol’s calculations show that Naviair’s flexible ATM saves airlines 10,000 tonnes of fuel annually during take-off procedures alone. It also saves the environment emissions of approximately 32,000 tonnes of CO2 and thousands of tonnes of other polluting gases annually.

We are still working closely together with our customers and partners to develop new initiatives that can optimise our environmental and climate performance.

We strive to align our climate efforts to customer wishes and needs at the same time as participating in the envi-ronmental and climate work in SES, SESAR, NUAC, NEAP, COOPANS and NORACON.

Based on Eurocontrol’s and IATA’s joint Flight Efficiency Plan we will continue to develop and ensure flexible utilisation of airspace by means of:

• Short routes, direct routes to destinations and fuel-efficient cruising altitudes
• The possibility of fuel-efficient approaches to Danish airports
• Minimum ground delays with engines idling through efficient ATM at airports
• CCD wherever possible – with direct routes and climbs to cruising altitude