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Exeter Airport has been listed as one of the most environmentally-friendly in the UK
Exeter Airport has been ranked the eighth greenest in the UK.
Researchers from Drive Electric looked at passenger numbers, carbon neutrality, ACI eco-innovation award wins and flight emissions of passengers (million tonnes of CO2). They assessed all UK airports with available data - 20 in total.
They sourced the flight emissions of passengers (million tonnes of CO2) for each airport using AirportTracker; each airport’s carbon-neutral status from the Airport Carbon Accreditation, and their sustainability report where unavailable.
In addition the researchers assessed the number of passengers that used each airport in 2022 using the UK Civil Aviation Authority Annual Airport Data 2022 and calculated the number of passengers per 1,000 metres of the runway at each airport, sourced from each airport’s website and Wikipedia and Airport-Technology where unavailable.
They also sourced the number of ACI eco-innovation award wins by each airport from the Airports Council International Europe and looked at wins between 2013 and 2023.
Finally, the team ranked each airport by giving it a normalised score out of 10 for each factor before calculating an average score across all factors.
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