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ACI-NA Public Safety & SecuritySteering GroupBriefing on Sustainability IntegrationSteering TeamAugust 19, 2007

Establishing Sustainable Airport Development and Operations

A Briefing to the Public Safety and Security Committee Steering Group

Committee’s Role in the Sustainability Steering and Working Groups

Gloria Bender (with compliments to James M. Crites)August 19, 2007

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Presentation Outline

• Evolution of Sustainability and a Definition

• ACI-NA’s Approach

• Accomplishments of the Sustainability

Working Group

• Sustainability Steering Group

• Forward Plan

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1970’s – Environmentalism as Altruistic Deprivation

• “Keep America Beautiful” • Crying Indian Ad Campaign

• Environmental Protection Agency

• Clean Air Act

• First Earth Day

• Greenpeace

• 1973/78 Oil Crisis

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1980’s – Need to Accept Responsibility

• Chernobyl Disaster

• Green Consumer Guide

• Acid Rain is Discovered

• Three Mile Island

• Exxon Valdez Oil Spill

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Sustainability Defined

Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

U.N. Commission on the Environment and Development

(Report of the Brundtland Commission), 1987

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1990’s – Environmentalism as Economic Win/Win

• First Earth Summit – Promotes Sustainable

Development

• EPA’s “Common Sense Initiative”

• First Energy Star Computer Award

• U.S. Green Building Council

• LEED Certification

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Sustainability Defined

Robust triple bottom line solutions that clarify and strengthen a healthy and dynamic balance between environmental, social and economic prosperity

U.S. Green Building Council

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The Essence of Sustainability

Financial Criteria Economically sustainable Technologically feasible Operationally viable

Environmental Criteria Environmentally robust Generationally sensitive Capable of Continuous

learning

Social Criteria Socially desirable Culturally acceptable

A balanced approach to assessing products, services and business activities using the following criteria:

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• Clarifies Holistic Mission

• Addresses It’s not deprivation

• Includes LEED but it’s not all “Green”

• Requires Strategic Leadership

• Embraces Total Cost of Ownership

• Expects Pro-active Management

• Values Natural Resources, Human Resources,Financial Resources and Social Resources(our Community-at-large)

• Identifies Best Business Practices for the Long Term

Sustainability for the 21st Century

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Sustainability for ACI-NA

A holistic approach to managing an airport so as to ensure the integrity of the Economic viability, Operational efficiency, Natural Resource conservation and Social responsibility of the airport. (EONS)

Airports Council International – North AmericaAviation Sustainability Working Group

A Joint Effort of the Environmental Committee and the Technical & Operations Committee

ACI-NA Board of Directors form Sustainability Steering Committee

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ACI-NA’s Approach

• Environmental and Technical Committees

establish the Sustainability Working Group

• Implementation of the Website and Best

Practices Database

• Identify need to to integrate activities of all ACI-

NA Committees

• Establishment of Sustainability Steering Group

• Forward Plan: Identify sustainable

opportunities aligned with Committee Work

Plans

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Sustainability Working Group Products - Web Page (Holland Young, Jacobs)

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Sustainability Working Group Products - Best Practices Database

(Eugene Peters, Ricondo & Assoc.)

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Sustainability Working Group’s Challenge

• Sustainability is holistic and “more than Green”

• Transformation to sustainable airport

development and operations requires efforts of

all ACI-NA committees

• Website and Best Practices Database need to

be populated with material from all committees

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Sustainability Steering Group• Sustainability Steering Group established

•Representatives from all ACI-NA Standing

Committees

• Mission: Identify and promote opportunities for

sustainable airport development and

operations practices within each committee’s

special scope of expertise

• Met for the first time in early August

• Resolution for consideration by Fall ACI-NA

BOD - SIST and SIT

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SIST Forward Plan

• Identify initiatives from Committee Work Plan

that can be aligned with sustainable

development

• Incorporate relevant PS&S sustainability

resource data into website

• Highlight PS&S best sustainable practices

and include in database

• Promote opportunities for sustainable

practices within PS&S Committee

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Role of PS&S Committee• Potential PS&S sustainability projects

•Consolidated receiving

•Long-term BSIS view of baggage screening

•Vetting/screening airport employees

•Identifying the sustainable layered security

approach

• Review work plan to identify sustainable

project opportunities

• Recruit interested PS&S committee members

for SIT

•Met for the first time in early August

• Resolution for consideration by Fall ACI-NA

BOD - SIST and SIT

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For more information and to volunteer contact:

Gloria BenderTransSolutions8187-359-2954

[email protected]

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