CLIMATE PROTECTION
The Fraport Group will achieve net zero status no later than the year 2045.
The Fraport Group has pledged to reduce scope 1 and 2 emissions at all of its fully consolidated companies to net zero by 2045 at the latest.
Starting in the 2024 reporting year, they include not only CO2 but also all other climatically relevant greenhouse gases.
Net zero therefore means greenhouse neutrality.
The current goal of zero CO2 by 2045 will remain in place as a component of the new target. The considered scope is being extended beyond facilities that are devoted exclusively to air traffic to include all other fully consolidated subsidiaries as well.
The new target is aligned with the stipulations of the European Union’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD). Starting with the 2024 reporting year, Fraport is switching over to compiling its climate balance sheets on the basis of CO2 equivalents (CO2e). All climatically relevant greenhouse gases are therefore now being taken into account.
Fraport’s target for 2030 will be to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions at FRA to 50,000 tonnes annually and for the group as a whole to 95,000 tonnes a year.
Fraport AG will significantly lower greenhouse gas emissions both in Frankfurt and across the group. The goal is for the group to decrease its total greenhouse gas emissions to 95,000 tonnes and those at Frankfurt to 50,000 tonnes annually. Fraport is thus aligning its goals for the group’s airports with the national targets of the countries in which they are located. Despite steadily increasing energy requirements, Fraport AG has succeeded in reducing the volume of CO2 emitted at Frankfurt Airport by 50 percent compared to 1990. The aim is to reduce the group’s total greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2045.
Fraport: a trailblazer in climate protection
The Fraport Group co-developed the Airport Carbon Accreditation (ACA) scheme together with Airports Council International Europe (ACI Europe) in 2008 and became the first airport operator in the world to obtain this certification in 2009.
The airport carbon accreditation (ACA) program has meanwhile become the industry standard, and the Frankfurt site’s ACA has confirmed the high quality of CO2 management there in every single year since 2009.
Overview of projects on the path toward net zero
Here you can find insights into selected projects:
The number of tonnes of CO₂ Fraport has saved to date by switching to LED technology
LED-Lamps
Fraport is changing all lighting to energy-saving LEDs. Since 2013, 85% of the lights have been replaced.
vehicles with electric drive systems are already in operation at Frankfurt Airport
26%
More than a sixth of the vehicle fleet at Frankfurt Airport is already made up of electric vehicles.
gigawatt hours of wind power per year. Frankfurt Airport is supplied with wind power under a new power purchase agreement (PPA) with its partner Centrica
households’ worth of energy has been saved through Fraport’s use of more efficient climate control and ventilation technology
Over 40%
The savings in the areas of electric, heating and cooling energy all amount to over 40%.
UPDATES AND INSIGHTS
Innovative Photovoltaic System to Provide Solar Power for Fraport
Fraport operates a 2.8 kilometer-long photovoltaic system along FRA’s Runway 18 West with 37,000 innovative, vertically-configured solar modules.
With peak output of 17.4 megawatts, the project is setting new standards for renewable energy at Frankfurt Airport and is receiving international recognition.
The symbolic commissioning of the facility took place in October 2025 and was overseen by the Hessian Minister for Economics and Transport, Kaweh Mansoori, and Fraport CEO Dr. Stefan Schulte.
Solar Power
Electromobility
Photovoltaic systems
Self-generated solar power
Since March 2021, Fraport AG has been using solar power generated from its own photovoltaic systems at Fraport Airport with a capacity in the megawatts. The first such system was a traditional roof installation at CargoCity South. Fraport now also generates solar energy from vertical panels installed alongside Runway 18 West.
LED technology
Sustainability through new LED technologies
From taxiways and runways to terminal buildings: Fraport has been switching conventional light bulbs for new light-emitting diodes since 2013. To date, the increased efficiency of the LEDs has enabled Fraport to save 5,000 tonnes of CO₂ every year. As well as being more efficient to run, the new LED technologies offer considerable sustainability benefits due to their significantly longer lifetime than traditional bulbs – up to 50,000 hours.
Central air conditioning plant
Renovation of existing infrastructure
The technical control of the buildings is coordinated via technology control centers. Among other things, they control ventilation and air conditioning, heating and cooling, measurement and control technology, building automation, sprinklers and electrical systems, and smoke extraction systems. The renovation of the technology control centers is set to be completed by 2030. The construction works include replacing all of the technical installations and introducing new sprinkler, fire alarm and smoke extraction systems.
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