Swedavia promotes sustainable enterprise journey

The airport operator Swedavia continues to contribute to the aviation trade’s local weather transition by the annual public tender of sustainable aviation gas (SAF) that Swedavia organizes with the goal of selling sustainable enterprise journey.

The general public tender makes it doable for Swedavia but in addition for different firms and organizations to scale back the local weather footprint of their enterprise journeys, as sustainable aviation gas has the potential to scale back lifecycle carbon dioxide emissions on common by as much as 80% in comparison with the common jet gas it replaces.

The 2023 public tender will start in January and Swedavia is now welcoming extra organizations to take part.

Since 2016, Swedavia has carried out an annual public tender for sustainable aviation gas (SAF), to scale back the lifecycle local weather emissions with respect to the entire firm’s personal enterprise journeys.

Inside the framework of the general public tender initiative, different organizations and corporations are additionally provided to take part.

Final 12 months and for the third 12 months working, along with Swedavia, a variety of organizations and corporations participated, such because the nationwide emergency providers supplier SOS Alarm and the Gotland County Administration, and in addition the Port of Gothenburg.

“We are able to all contribute to sustainable journey, each as people and thru our office – this is applicable to firms, organizations and authorities,” says Lena Wennberg, chief sustainable growth officer at Swedavia.

“Our public tender reduces the lifecycle emissions with respect to the person enterprise journey, but in addition contributes to growing demand for the manufacturing of biofuel, which is critical for aviation’s local weather transition.”

By way of the general public tender, practically 170 tonnes of fossil-free sustainable aviation gas have been refueled in 2022, nearly all of which have been utilized by Swedavia.

The gas corresponds to roughly 3 000 round-trip passenger flights between Stockholm and Berlin and an estimated emission discount of roughly 500 tons of carbon dioxide in comparison with common jet gas.

The vast majority of the sustainable aviation gas was refueled at Stockholm Arlanda Airport between December 25 and December 29.

“It is vitally gratifying that our companions select to fly extra sustainably for his or her enterprise journeys by collaborating in our public tender of sustainable aviation gas”, says Lena Wennberg at Swedavia.

“On this means, all of us contribute to extra sustainable journey and the transition to a fossil-free aviation sector sooner or later, which needs to be a pure a part of the sustainable transport and transport system of the longer term. Our aim is in fact for much more organizations to take part. I subsequently need to take the chance to welcome extra members to this 12 months’s public tender, which can begin within the subsequent few weeks.”

The 2023 public tender will start in January, with the chance for extra organizations to take part and contribute to the transition by flying extra sustainably of their enterprise journeys.