Report on Environmental Management System (EMS ... - ICAO

<strong>Report</strong> on Environmental Management
8-8 System (EMS) Practices in the Aviation Sector
Environmental issue or impact
Local air quality �
Helpful today
High Medium
Non-governmental organizations �
Capacity and growth constraints �
Soil and water protection �
International public perceptions �
Waste management �
Energy management �
Material and chemical management �
Operational efficiency �
Customers’ and other stakeholders’ concerns �
Shareholders’ appreciation or rating agencies �
Note.— Areas of helpfulness determined through identification of categories with the single highest
respondent percentage within the Other sector.
8.3.3 Respondents rated each environmental issue against the following six levels of environmental programme
helpfulness: very helpful now, medium helpful now, likely to be helpful in five years, likely to be helpful in ten years, will
never be very helpful, and not applicable. Only one level of helpfulness could be assigned to each environmental issue
or impact.
8.3.4 Like organizations with an EMS, those without indicated that it is important to measure environmental
performance to ensure compliance and to minimize the organization’s impact on the environment. Environmental
performance is typically measured through the continuous monitoring and measurement of specific elements important
to the organization and through yearly reviews and inspections, as well as by the number of incidents that occur per year.
The environmental targets set by respondents focused on the reduction of water, fuel, energy and waste consumption.
8.3.5 Respondents without a formal management system were asked to list the five most important
environmental regulations with which their organization’s environmental programme helped ensure compliance. Since
respondents were worldwide, various environmental regulations were identified as important, but there was no clear
consensus on specific legislation. As for those with an EMS in place (see 5.1), results were categorized into areas of
environmental concern which were tallied and ranked to identify the top five areas that respondents without an EMS
ensured compliance (Table 8-3).