NAIROBI, Sept. 26 (Xinhua) -- Kenya Airports Authority (KAA) said Thursday it has launched its going-green initiative with a goal of becoming the greenest airport operator in Africa by 2022.
Jonny Andersen, KAA managing director, said on Thursday the initiative is in line with the authority's 2018-2022 strategic plan.
"It is now a reality that climate change is one of the biggest challenges facing mankind. Aviation has been criticized as a major contributor of carbon emissions and this has lead to a steady growth of airports embracing green energy. As Kenya Airports Authority, we would like to place Kenya in the center of this momentum with our goal to be the greenest airport operator in the region by the year 2022," Andersen said in a statement issued in Nairobi.
The authority's 2018-2022 strategic plan highlights environmental stewardship as one of its main strategic areas stating that the organization will over the next five years seeks to implement a carbon accreditation program, undertake afforestation, solar power and rain water harvesting program across it network and acquire the ISO 14001-2015: environmental management system (EMS) standard.
In December 2018, the first of environmental pilot project in Africa consisting of a ground-mounted 500kW solar power generation facility and mobile airport gate electric equipment was launched at Moi International Airport in Mombasa, Kenya.
