„Environmental protection at Hamburg Airport means having the courage to promote tomorrow's ideas today. For more than 20 years now, we have been pioneers in raising awareness of CO2 reduction throughout the industry. We are actively shaping the energy transition in aviation by creating the conditions for flights using hydrogen as an energy source, converting our ground operations to CO2-free and building our own wind farm - for a green, self-sufficient energy supply for our airport.“
Jan Eike Hardegen, Head of Environmental Protection Center
As far as possible, we avoid environmental pollution. We use energy and raw materials sensibly and as economically as possible. We make use of the best available technology when proportional and feasible. We seek to influence our customers and contractual partners in accordance with this goal.
We observe all legal requirements. Wherever ecologically beneficial and economically useful, our voluntary measures exceed legal requirements. As an innovative environmentally conscious company, we seek to reduce the environmental impact from our operations beyond these minimum requirements.
We identify, document and evaluate those activities which have an impact on the environment in order to identify possibilities for improvement. We aim to make progress in operational environmental protection by providing thorough education and training to our employees. We set measurable targets for improvement in environmental protection.
We encourage every employee to make suggestions for the improvement of environmental protection, either within the framework of the company’s employee suggestion system or by making direct contact with the relevant responsible persons. In the light of a constructive partnership, we have a common dedication for absolute reductions of greenhouse gas emissions.
We engage in open and critical dialogue with the general public. The general public receives information about our company’s environmental impact, and we take its concerns, questions and criticisms seriously.
We reduce or compensate the greenhouse gas emissions generated by our activities. We regularly measure and analyse our greenhouse gas emissions. In the light of this we are committed to absolute emissions reductions. We regularly determine our emissions and evaluate them We conduct an active dialogue with our business partners in order to plan and execute joint reduction measures. Our goal is the CO2-neutral operation of our airport.
