FG to de-carbonise Abuja airport soon — Keyamo

By Nnasom David

THE Federal authorities has revealed plans to commence the decarbonisation of Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja.

The Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo said the challenges posed by clime alteration demanded decisive, concerted enactment by stakeholders to clasp decarbonisation. He suggested exploring radical electrification of aprons and terminals, sustainable aviation fuel, SAF, corridors and waste-to-energy projects to trim emanation successful airdrome operations.

The minister, who disclosed this  astatine a stakeholders engagement connected c emissions absorption astatine the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, NAIA, successful Abuja yesterday.

Represented by the imperishable caput of the Ministry of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Dr. Ibrahim Kana, astatine the lawsuit organised by the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, FAAN, Keyamo said:

“The planetary aviation assemblage stands astatine a crossroads. On 1 hand, we are drivers of economical growth, connectivity, and nationalist development.

‘’On the other, we are work 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 precise halfway of our aviation infrastructure is not an option, it is an imperative for agelong term, resilient prosperity”

Also speaking, the Managing Director of FAAN, Mrs Olubunmi Kuku, said clime alteration posed a menace to planetary aviation industry, with imaginable antagonistic ripple effects connected concern and livelihoods, if not decently managed.

Kuku, who was represented by the Director of Human Resource and Administration, Dr. Luqman Eniola, said FAAN was committed to decarbonising its operations done 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 we tin integrate them into our c absorption program for the airport, wherever it is 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 implementation of emanation simplification measures for the Lagos airdrome has commenced, adding that much actions would beryllium considered successful the reconstruction and enlargement of the airport’s terminal buildings.

“The Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, is besides important to america and this is wherefore we are hosting this lawsuit contiguous to guarantee that we perceive from you, and we volition travel together.

‘’As they say, ‘never locomotion alone’! We privation to locomotion with you, and we request you to locomotion with america successful our determination of net-zero emissions people successful our airdrome operations,’’ Kuku said.

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