Federal Government Plans Abuja Airport Decarbonisation

The national authorities has begun readying to decarbonise the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja.

Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, stated this astatine the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (NAIA) successful Abuja.

He suggested exploring radical electrification of aprons and terminals, sustainable aviation substance (SAF) corridors, and waste-to-energy projects to trim emissions successful airdrome operations.

The minister, who was represented by the imperishable caput of the Ministry of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Dr. Ibrahim Kana, astatine a stakeholders engagement connected c emissions absorption organised by the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) astatine the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (NAIA) successful Abuja, said the challenges posed by clime alteration request decisive, concerted enactment by stakeholders to clasp decarbonisation.

He said, “The planetary aviation assemblage stands astatine a crossroads. On 1 hand, we are drivers of economical growth, connectivity, and nationalist development. On the different hand, we are duty-bound to code our biology interaction with utmost seriousness.

“The situation of clime alteration is not a distant theoretical concern; it is simply a contiguous and pressing world that demands decisive, concerted action. For Nigeria, a federation poised for exponential maturation successful aerial question and trade, embedding sustainability into the halfway of our aviation infrastructure is not an option; it is an imperative for long-term, resilient prosperity”.

Also speaking, the managing manager of FAAN, Olubunmi Kuku, said clime alteration poses a menace to the planetary aviation industry, with imaginable antagonistic ripple effects connected concern and livelihood if not decently managed.
Kuku, who was represented by the manager of Human Resources and Administration, Dr. Luqman Eniola, said FAAN is committed to decarbonising its operations done the implementation of strategical measures.

On the essence of the stakeholder engagement, she said, “This forum is expected to assistance FAAN recognize emanation absorption measures truthful that we tin integrate them into our c absorption program for the airport, wherever necessary.”

She hinted that the FAAN ACA Team and the Carbon Emission Reduction Committee (CERC) carried retired mapping successful Lagos, Abuja, Kano, Enugu and Port Harcourt, noting that energy depletion accounted for astir 90 per cent of the full emissions for Lagos airdrome from 2017 to 2023.

Kuku said the implementation of emanation simplification measures for the Lagos airdrome has commenced, adding that much actions volition beryllium considered successful reconstructing and expanding the airport’s terminal buildings.

“The Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, is besides important to us, and this is wherefore we are hosting this lawsuit contiguous to guarantee that we perceive from you and volition travel together. As they say, ‘never locomotion alone’! We privation to locomotion with you, and we request you to locomotion with america successful determining a net-zero emissions people successful our airdrome operations,” the FAAN MD stated.