LFV Annual Report 2019 1
DIRE C T OR S ’ REPOR T LFV 2019 OUR CONTRIBUTION
TO AGENDA 2030 OBJECTIVE 3 GOOD HEALTH AND WELL-BEING Agenda 2030 is a global initiative to achieve social, economic and environmental sustainability development. Agenda 2030 includes 17 global primary objectives with corresponding sub-objectives. LFV is one of the authorities that is involved and contributes to the work to support Sweden's implementation of Agenda 2030. The goal areas in which LFV has the greatest opportunity to contribute are: OBJECTIVE 7 SUSTAINABLE ENERGY FOR EVERYONE OBJECTIVE 5 EQUALITY OBJECTIVE 9 SUSTAINABLE INDUSTRY, INNOVATIONS AND INFRASTRUCTURE OBJECTIVE 11 SUSTAINABLE CITIES AND SOCIETIES OBJECTIVE 12 SUSTAINABLE CONSUMPTION AND PRODUCTION radar tracking from millions of flights and other data from the air traffic system TopSky in order to be able to assess how environmentally optimised traffic flows are, where there are deficiencies and how they can be rectified. LFV also offers support for the airports' environmental license work and environmental analyses in order to minimise the influence from noise and emissions. LFV has an important role in the airspace project SAARP (Stockholm Arlanda Airspace Redesign Programme), which was launched in 2018. In 2019, a new model was created in which parts of the airspace were tested in simulations. The simulations were evaluated partly from an environmental perspective. During the year, the project has also collaborated with airspace users with respect to needs and demands on the future's airspace. THE DIRECT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT Significant direct environmental aspects are: • flight measurement (that generate emissions) • business travel • procurement and purchasing of products and services • energy consumption in buildings and facilities • refrigerants that are used to cool buildings LFV's direct environmental impact consists primarily of the use of energy in buildings and in the operations that we run, as well as emissions from business travel. The internal environmental work is run in a structured manner with the support of LFV's environmental management system, which is certified in accordance with ISO 14001. LFV's emissions of greenhouse gases arise primarily from energy consumption and business travel. In order to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, we must work on behavioural changes and take measures such as investment in energy-saving technology. LFV ONLY BUYS GREEN ELECTRICITY LFV uses energy for operations and heating/cooling of its own and leased properties. Energy is also used to run operational systems for LFV's air traffic control equipment. Because LFV only buys green electricity, emissions caused by energy consumption are kept at a low level. ENERGY CONSUMPTION REDUCED LFV's goal for 2019 was to reduce internal energy consumption by 8 per cent in comparison with the reference year 2012. During 2019, LFV reduced its energy consumption by approximately 14 per cent in comparison with 2012, which means we met the goal. A contributing factor to this improvement is that LFV has reduced the area in the premises that are used to run operations and that the areas are used more energy-efficiently. CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSIONS DOWN 19 PER CENT Because LFV's operations are spread across the country and internationally, we are dependent on national and international travel. LFV's goal for 2019 was to reduce internal carbon dioxide emissions from business travel and energy consumption by 8 per cent in comparison with the reference year 2012. The reduction of carbon dioxide emissions during the year in comparison with 2012 amounted to 19 per cent, which means that we have achieved the established goal. This has been managed by means of reducing the number of trips, e.g. by replacing physical meetings with digital meetings, partly by choosing modes of transportation with low consumption of fossil fuels and improved energy consumption in facilities. The digital meetings have been used extensively during the year and increased by approximately 53 per cent over the previous year. 41