FRENCH RIVIERA'S AIRPORTS REMAINS CARBON-NEUTRAL

Eight years after launching its decarbonisation project, the Aéroports de la Côte d’Azur Group is continuing its efforts to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions. These efforts were recognised during summer 2019 by the renewal of Level 3+ Airport Carbon Accreditation for the Group’s three airports on the French Riviera. In 2016, Nice Côte d’Azur led the way, by becoming the first French airport to obtain this recognition of carbon neutrality. Since then, France’s second airport in terms of passenger numbers has been constantly improving its environmental performance. In just under ten years, it has successfully reduced its CO2 emissions to a quarter, whereas this figure has only fallen by half in the rest of Europe. At the end of 2019, Nice’s carbon footprint was approaching 100g per passenger, when the European average remained over 1.5 kg.