NCAA, Lufthansa Brainstorm on Environmental Protection in Air Travel

Chinedu Eze

The Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) and Lufthansa Airlines at the weekend in Lagos held discussion on how air transport could make efforts to further curb pollution and protect the environment by operating aircraft with the lowest emissions and adopting other ways to reduce emission to zero over time.                                                                                                                                               

Director of Air Transport Regulations, Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) Mrs. Olayinka Babaoye-Iriobe, who was represented by Mrs. Evelyn Tanko, Deputy General Manager, (Commercial Agreement and Aviation Environment) spoke on behalf of NCAA and stated that the Authority is empowered by the Civil Aviation Act, 2022 to regulate emission and reduce the pollution in aciation.

She said NCAA is committed to the sustainability of the industry and would champion the curbing of emission in air transport in Nigeria.

Babaoye-Iriobe disclosed that NCAA domesticated ICAO Annex 16 on Environmental Protection into the National regulations under Part 16 of Nig. CARS which covers requirements for monitoring, reporting, and verification of CO2 Emissions for international aviation, and Part 5 addresses aircraft noise and emission certification.

In a speech, the Senior Director (Sales), Lufthansa, Sub-Sahara Africa, Mr. Rene Koinzack said that the airline has deployed Science- Based Target Initiatives (SBTI) which comprises modern fleet, efficient flight operations, carbon neutral flying, sustainable aviation fuel, reduction of waste and plastics as part of their effort to sustain the industry.