Sustainability is one of the most important political, economic and societal issues and the aviation industry has a responsibility to minimise its impact on the environment and the climate.
With the aviation industry now sharing a common goal to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050 there is a need to agree on a commonly accepted approach to track progress at industry level. In collaboration with experts from various units and interested stakeholders, EUROCONTROL, with the support of its independent Performance Review Commission (PRC), has developed a methodology to compute CO2 emissions from a gate-to-gate perspective, based on radar and aircraft performance data.
The calculation of the gate-to-gate CO2 emissions have been automated by the EUROCONTROL Aviation Intelligence Unit (AIU) and the data is made available to interested stakeholders on the AIU dashboard. The results are also presented in the latest Performance Review Report.
This publication briefly explains the methodology developed in close coordination with various industry experts.
It also provides an understanding of the validation process that has been carried out in cooperation with EASA leveraging the advent of the EASA Data4Safety Digital Platform.
Lastly, the paper offers an insight in the future work based on the outcomes of the validation exercise.