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ECO EFFICIENCY —
Improved Air Trafc Management (ATM) promises signicant
improvements in eco-efciency. The Group is playing an
important role in ATM programmes such as “Single European
Sky ATM Research” (SESAR) in Europe, and NextGen in the US.
Airbus ProSky, which supplies ATM performance improvement
solutions, was awarded a contract to study cost effective ways
of reducing fuel consumption in the Asia-Pacic region.
MONITORING THE ENVIRONMENT
As a leading satellite system specialist, the Group’s Defence
and Space Division has extensive expertise and operational
mission experience in the eld of Earth observation. Through
the SPOT, Pléiades, and TerraSAR-X constellations, satellite
imagery is used to monitor natural resources, measure and
mitigate deforestation and forest degradation, and survey
the growth of mega-cities.
Together with its customers and partners, Airbus Defence and
Space is contributing to a more sustainable society through
spacecraft and technologies under development. The Division is
the prime contractor for four of the six ESA Living Planet missions
– Cryosat-2, Swarm, Aeolus and EarthCARE. In 2013, the trio of
Swarm satellites was launched into orbit, from where they will
measure the Earth’s magnetic eld.
In November 2013, the Airbus Defence and Space greenhouse
gas emissions measurement service was among business
initiatives included in the Climate and Energy Action Hub that
was presented during the Caring for Climate Business Forum
at COP19 in Warsaw. This new monitoring service allows
governments, cities and local authorities to directly measure
effectiveness of their emission reduction policies. The new
service has already begun emissions mapping in Paris and
Rotterdam, following testing in London.
CLEANER PRODUCTION
The Group is working across Divisions to reduce the
environmental impact of industrial operations. Airbus has
continued its blue5 initiative, which has specic goals for 2020
(from a 2006 baseline). These include 50% reductions in CO2
emissions, water consumption, waste production and volatile
organic compound (VOC) emissions; a 30% reduction in
energy consumption and an 80% reduction in industrial
water discharge.
Airbus Group is researching advanced
technologies that will lead to alternative
sources of on-board power for aircraft.
SPOT 6 earth observation satellite
A320neo
BUILDING OUR CULTURE — ANNUAL REVIEW 2013
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