Airports & CO2

All this talk about ‘tonnes of CO₂’ can sometimes make the reductions achieved hard to visualise. How much energy does a ton of CO₂ equate to? On this page, we try to give you some context on the collective reductions airports have reported for this year and previous years.

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  56,633 tonnes

  of CO₂ (equivalent to the annual CO₂ sequestered by 399 acres of forest)

  July 2009 - June 2010

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  51,501 tonnes

  of CO₂ (equivalent to removing over 12,700 cars from the roads)

  July 2010 - June 2011

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  77,782 tonnes

  of CO₂ (enough to power 32,490 households for a year)

  July 2011 - June 2012

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  110,003 tonnes

  of CO₂ (enough to power 45,949 households for a year)

  July 2012 - June 2013

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  129,330 tonnes

  of CO₂ (equivalent to removing 31,894 cars from the roads)

  July 2013 - June 2014

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  212,460 tonnes

  of CO₂ (equivalent to the annual CO₂ sequestered by 1,496 acres of forest)

  July 2014 - June 2015

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  206,090 tonnes

  of CO₂ (enough to power over 86,000 households for a year)

  July 2015 - June 2016  

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  202,184 tonnes

  of CO₂ (It is equal to the CO2 emitted during the lifecycle of 2,128,252 iPhones)

  July 2016 - June 2017

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  347,026 tonnes

  of CO₂ (It is equal to the CO₂ sequestered by 8,158,834 seedlings grown for 10 years)

  July 2017 – June 2018

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  322,297 tonnes

  of CO₂(equivalent to emissions from 767 million hours of video streaming in HD)

  July 2018 – June 2019