Course Name:
Aviation and the Environment
Date:16/02/2025 - 20/02/2025
Location:Live sessions
Conducted By:
RTC
How Will I Benefit?
- Understand aviation’s contribution to climate change
- Identify key factors for a sustainable aviation industry
- Get updated on the latest aviation technologies and their contribution to environmental protection
- Get introduced to state-of-the-art technologies and comparing them to conventional and traditional technologies.
- Assess various measures to minimize environmental impact through technological, operational and infrastructure improvements.
- Address specific environmental challenges within your organization
- Develop evaluation methods for proper environmental assessment
- Learn about Required Navigation Performance (RNP) capabilities
Who Should Attend?
- Airport staff and managers
- Airport technical team (designers, O&M, and Facility managers)
- Civil aviation and regulatory authorities and staff
- Finance managers
- Service providers
- Corporate and executive staff from airlines and airports
- Pilots, Air Traffic Controllers and other operational staff
- Representatives of aviation business
Course Contents:
- Contribution of aviation to climate change and global warming, and the measures being taken to combat these changes
- Four Pillars Strategy to combat negative impact on the environment
- Outcomes of significant environment meetings
- ICAO high Level meeting on climate change (7-9 October 2009)
- Climate Summit in Copenhagen
- Post-Kyoto framework
- Conference of the Parties (COP16) in Mexico (Nov - Dec 2010)
- Social, economic and environmental impacts
- Regulatory and institutional framework
- Technological and operational improvements
- Development and commercialization of sustainable biojet-fuels
- Continuous descent operations and green departures
- Use of Required Navigation Performance (RNP) capabilities
- New fuel-saving routes and flexible long-haul routing (IATA i-Flex)
- Regional ATM initiatives such as NextGen (USA), Single European Sky, ASPIRE (Asia & South Pacific Initiative to Reduce Emissions), INSPIRE (Indian Ocean Partnership to Reduce Emissions) and AIRE (Atlantic Interoperability Initiative to Reduce Emissions)
Fees
Members:USD
1250
Non Members:USD
1400