Nice Airport has achieved Level 5 Airport Carbon Accreditation (ACA), the highest level awarded by ACI EUROPE (Airports Council International) globally in recognition of airports’ability to manage greenhouse emissions. This places Nice among the small group (4%) of global airports to have achieved such a result. Handling around 15 million passengers a year, it is the largest French airport to receive this level of accreditation.

Accreditation has been awarded five years from 2030, the target date for the Company’s decarbonisation goals. It also recognises the commitment to decarbonising the Company’s entire value chain (Scope 3emissions) by 2050, including aircraft and ground handling emissions.

Nice airport has so far managed to cut its direct (Scope 1 and 2) emissions by 90% compared with 2010.This has been made possible thanks to the structural and technological initiatives included in the framework drawn up by the Parent Company, Mundys, setting out the sustainability roadmap for Group companies. This covers a series of tangible actions:

the use of renewable electricity;

the introduction of electric vehicles;

the use of HVO 100 biodiesel in place of diesel where the electrification of vehicles is not possible;

the installation of high-efficiency integrated heating systems;

the replacement of gas with biogas or geothermal systems.

Mundys is progressively embedding sustainability within its activities throughout the value chain, in accordance with the clear sustainable transport strategy set out in its Climate Action Plan. One of the first parent companies in Italy to adopt such a plan, the document sets a number of targets:

to get to net zero by 2040;

to use fully renewable electricity;

to cut investment emissions by 50%;

to reduce indirect emissions linked to airport access and highway maintenance by 22%.

To back these commitments, the Group has reinforced the integration of sustainability into its financial strategy through the use of green instruments with a total value of approximately € 5.3 billion, including sustainability-linked loans and bonds.

Remaining in Italy and in the airports sector, it should be remembered that Fiumicino airport - the country’s leading airport controlled by Aeroporti di Roma, a Mundys Group company- has over the years carried out a number of major projects: from the Solar Farm, consisting of 55,000 silicon panels producing a total of 22MW and the largest photovoltaic plant to be built at a European airport, and one of the biggest in the world,to "Pioneer", an energy storage system that uses second life hybrid batteries from electric vehicles to store and deliver renewable energy.