GVK Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (CSIA) has received the Airport Carbon Accreditation (ACA) Level 3 optimization accreditation honour by Airport Council International (ACI). This accolade serves as recognition of CSIA’s continuing focus on embracing environment-friendly measures in general and relentlessly working on reducing carbon emission levels in particular.
GVK CSIA has consistently strived to reduce the carbon emissions from its operational activities and as a holistic and meaningful approach has also inculcated this approach into its operational stakeholders. The company has earlier achieved ACA for Level 1 MAPPING in 2012 and upgraded to Level 2 Reduction in 2013 which was effectively renewed in 2014. The latest accreditation serves as a testimony to the company’s success achieved in the chosen area of focus and places CSIA along with 6 airports in APAC & 23 across the globe to have received such an accreditation under this category.
Rajiv Jain, CEO, GVK CSIA said, “Inclusive growth achieved by meaningful sustainable initiatives has been a strong organization focus at GVK CSIA. We are pleased to achieve this accreditation from an independent global agency of repute i.e. ACI. We are now even more motivated to pursue with vigour our carbon emission objectives and thank our value chain partners who share our belief and without whom this achievement would not have been a holistic success.”
As part of the upgradation to ACA Level Optimisation, CSIA widened the scope of carbon footprint to include third party stakeholders and their respective emissions inorder to ensure an overall check on the carbon emissions. Under this focus, activities related to airport landing & takeoff, staff business & office travel, passenger movement, ground support operational activities, electricity consumption, fuel consumption, etc. where optimised from a sustainability perspective and the resultant carbon emission data being independently verified by Bureau Veritas Certification India Pvt Ltd.
