It is the goal of the NATA Environment Committee to promote environmental sustainability for FBOs and other aviation businesses. The NATA Sustainability Standard for Aviation Businesses (the “Standard”) allows NATA member organizations to achieve a self-certification by taking steps that are designed to reduce Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions (including CO2), increase use of more environmentally friendly energy sources, reduce waste, and encourage sustainability. The Standard also offers those organizations that complete a self-certification process to highlight their conformance to this standard by displaying the corresponding logo.
The Standard aims to provide organizations with flexible, cost-effective options to pursue practices in their operations that are sustainable and can serve as a foundation for future enhancements. The FAA defines1 airport sustainable actions as those that achieve these three goals:
1) Reduce environmental impacts 2) Help maintain high, stable levels of economic growth 3) Help achieve “social progress,” a broad set of actions that ensure organizational goals are achieved in a way that’s consistent with the needs and values of the local community
The Standard provides a targeted list of actions that aviation businesses can make *today* to reduce their carbon footprint and support overall sustainability in their operations and community, while also providing options for future enhancements and/or adoption of other third-party certifications, if desired. Appendix C of this document provides links to some examples of these options for those organizations interested in pursuing them.
Organizations interested in participating in this program can achieve certification through these steps:
If the Network Checklist is used, the level achieved will apply to all individual locations within that network. It does not preclude any individual locations within that network from using Appendix A to achieve a higher tier, and if done, it will apply to that location only.
www.faa.gov/airports/environmental/sustainability
Aviation Businesses that return Appendix A will achieve the following levels by completing:
ONLY ORGANIZATIONS THAT COMPLETE ALL COMPONENTS OF THIS OPTIONAL SELF-CERTIFICATION PROCESS AND RECEIVE WRITTEN CONFIRMATION FROM NATA HAVE PERMISSION TO USE AND DISPLAY THE NATA SUSTAINABILITY STANDARD LOGO DURING APPROVED TIMEFRAMES.
Download Appendix C of the Sustainability Standard to discover more resources and tools that may be of interest.