Soon we will have reason to be even more proud of ourselves
Although the innate characteristics of ENAV mean that the Company does not have any major environmental impacts, in order to send a clear signal to the entire air traffic sector and beyond, we have embarked on an ambitious plan to reduce our emissions that will make us a carbon-neutral company, surpassing and anticipating EU targets.
With the European Green Deal, the EU established the goal of defining a growth strategy able to transform the Union into a modern economy, efficient from the standpoint of resources and competitiveness, and in which net greenhouse gas emissions will be reduced to zero by 2050.
In line with this ambitious goal, in September 2020 we launched an assessment of direct and indirect energy emissions (Scopes 1 and 2), following which we defined our strategy for our carbon footprint, which is structured into three macro-initiatives:
- all externally purchased energy must be from renewable sources (purchase of Guarantees of Origin);
- part of the energy we use will be self-generated thanks to the trigeneration plant and photovoltaic panels;
- the fleet of company cars will be gradually replaced with hybrid and plug-in electric vehicles.
Thanks to these initiatives, our emissions will be reduced by 23% in 2021 and by 80% in 2022 and, again in 2022, the quantity of our emissions fell by 24.6% in 2021 as a result of these measures and we have set ourselves the objective of becoming Carbon Neutral in 2022; again in 2022, the remaining portion of emissions will be offset by buying carbon credits or financing environmental protection projects. ¹
1 The percentages were defined in accordance with the Market Based calculation method with respect to the 2019 baseline.
| 2019 (baseline) |
2020 | 2021 |
2022 Target |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Emissions CO₂ ENAV Group Market based |
38,816.33 tCO₂e | 34,601.18 tCO₂e -10.8% |
29,245.32 tCO₂e -24.6% |
Reduce emissions by about -70% |
| The percentage of emissions that cannot be eliminated will be balanced by purchasing carbon offsets or by financing environmental protection projects. By 2022 will be a carbon-neutral company. |
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ENAV will achieve Carbon Neutrality by further cutting emissions compared with 2021 and will offset the percentage of non-reducible emissions by buying carbon credits or financing environmental protection projects.
In November 2021 we had our strategy for the reduction of Scopes 1, 2 and 3 emissions validated by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi). ENAV is the first Italian company in the air transport sector, as well as the first Air Navigation Service Provider in the world, to have reached this important goal.
| Scope 1-2 | (baseline) 2019 |
2020 | 2021 | 2030 Target |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Emissions CO₂ ENAV Group Market based |
38,816.33 tCO₂e | 34,601.18 tCO₂e |
29,245.32 tCO₂e |
Reduce emissions by -70% |
| Scope 3 | (baseline) 2019 |
2020 | 2021 | 2030* Target |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Emissions CO₂ ENAV Group Market based |
65,080.00 tCO₂e | 51,689.42 tCO₂e |
55,421.30 tCO₂e |
Reduce emissions by -13,5% |
| *The target to attain in 2030 only regards three Scope 3 categories: Capital Goods, Fuel- and Energy-Related Activities and Employee Commuting. | ||||
Furthermore, in order to guide the management of all environmental issues, a new Environmental Policy was issued in September 2020. The Policy confirms the guidelines, commitments and targets already indicated in the first issue of the Policy of March 2019, which the ENAV Group has not only for the purpose of enhancing its legislative compliance, but also to improve environmental performance and pursue the principle of sustainable development.
