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.

Fraport leverages savings in four main areas:

Hessian state government supports expansion of charging infrastructure at Frankfurt Airport

Fraport AG is gradually converting its ground services vehicle fleet at Frankfurt Airport (FRA) to alternative drives. The airport operator is receiving financial support from the state of Hesse. In all, the state government’s two new funding decisions provide Fraport AG with around EUR 690.000. Fraport will invest a total of almost EUR 1.2 million in expanding charging facilities on the airport apron by the end of 2024. The airport operator has also earmarked investments amounting to EUR 17 million for converting specialist ground services vehicles to electric drives over the same period.