Environmental Sustainability

Our climate journey began over a decade ago, with the Company joining Airports Council International’s (ACI) Airport Carbon Accreditation (ACA) Programme at Level 1 in 2016. This programme has supported our carbon footprint mapping efforts, enabling us to identify the main sources of our emissions and implement the most effective initiatives to decarbonise our operations. Since almost 90% of our emissions result from electricity consumption, we have made significant investments in solar energy over the years. Having recently decommissioned our largest photovoltaic farm, our annual clean energy generation capacity now stands at around 8.2 million kWh, which is enough to power over 1,600 local households for a year. Our energy-management efforts, including the more recent collection of Scope 3 emissions from stakeholders, allowed us to progress to Level 3 of the ACA Programme in 2024, as we continued to work towards our ambition of becoming a net zero carbon airport for emissions under our control by 2050.

Waste and resource management is a key pillar of our commitment to minimise our environmental footprint. Following the gradual implementation of several waste-related initiatives, including improved waste separation through the introduction of organic waste collection, we began to measure their effectiveness by introduced the landfill waste per passenger metric in 2022 to monitor their effectiveness. By 2024, we successfully increased the amount of recycled waste by 30%, while limiting the rise in landfill waste to just 2%. At Malta International Airport, we continue to collaborate with around 5,000 stakeholders operating on our premises to drive lasting behavioural change in how we use resources and manage waste.

By strengthening its leadership team, engaging its employees in its sustainability journey, and fostering interdepartmental collaboration, Malta International Airport has continued to build a resilient and responsible organisation. Since the first sustainability report was published in 2015, the airport has increasingly adopted practices that minimise the negative social and environmental impacts of its operations to get to where it is today.