The United Kingdom Civil Aviation Administration (CAA) has launched its consultation process to enhance the country’s Aviation Environmental Review (AER), which the regulator has been publishing since the UK left the European Union (EU). According to the CAA, the EU Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) previously handled these reports on behalf of all Member States, which included the UK before Brexit. Shaping the report reviewing the UK’s environmental performance In a statement on October 1, the UK CAA said that it has launched its calls for new proposals that would improve its environmental reporting capabilities in the future.
The regulator has put plans forward with the goal to shape the future of the AER. The UK CAA noted that the report was a tool that assessed and provided an objective overview of the environmental performance of the country’s aviation industry. The existing report already plays a crucial role by pointing out and measuring the industry’s environmental performance and providing recommendations to improve it, added the regulator.
Using the report, the UK government, industry, and other stakeholders could make positive changes related to their environmental policies. Smaller airports tend to perform worse in terms of CO2-per-passenger-kilometer numbers. Making the UK a global leader Harry Armstrong, the head of sustainability of the CAA, said that while demand for air travel has continued to grow, the need to fly more sustainably has never been more urg.