Vinci Airports undertook this Wednesday in Faro to achieve, within a period of 10 years, the objective of “zero emissions” of gases that are harmful to the environment in the ten airports that it controls in Portugal through ANA.
I promise that, within 10 years, the Portuguese/ANA airports will have zero carbon emissions”, said the CEO of VINCI Concessions France and President of VINCI Airports, Nicolas Notebaert, on the sidelines of the award ceremony Faro Airport with the official name Aeroporto Gago Coutinho, within the framework of the commemorations of the bicentennial of the independence of Brazil.
Nicolas Notebaert said that “Portugal will probably be the first country in Europe and the world to have “zero emissions” of gases that are harmful to the environment at its airports.
Vinci Airports, a subsidiary of the Vinci Group, is a French airport operator that since 2013 has owned the Portuguese company ANA, which is responsible for the management of 10 airports in mainland Portugal (Lisbon, Porto, Faro and the Beja Civil Terminal), in the Autonomous Community Region of the Azores (Ponta Delgada, Horta, Santa Maria and Flores) and in the Autonomous Region of Madeira (Madeira and Porto Santo).
For Nicolas Notebaert, it is necessary to reconcile “mobility, tourism and the fight against climate change”, and the environmental commitment is “necessary”: “That is why Portugal will take the lead in green electricity at airports”, he said.
The CEO of Vinci Concessions also stressed that “the summer was very positive”, “a success for the country [Portugal] in terms of tourism”with the intention of the multinational leader to “continue investing as much as possible in the country.”
A new photovoltaic plant at Faro airport, inaugurated in July, is part of a global action plan of Vinci Airports in all its airports, with similar projects already implemented or under development in other countries.
This project in the Algarve will make it possible to produce 30% of the airport’s energy needs, generating annual savings equivalent to more than 1,500 tons of CO2, according to data from the French multinational.
Source: Observadora
