Travel Daily News
Theodore Koumelis
08 Dec 2025
The EUROCONTROL and ACI Europe climate resilience guidance, titled Adapting European Aviation to a Changing Climate: Guidance on Risk Assessment and Adaptation, has been jointly released to provide a comprehensive framework for airports, airlines and air navigation service providers (ANSPs). The new document is designed to help the sector prepare for, and adapt to, the escalating impacts of climate change, ensuring that European aviation can continue to operate safely, reliably and efficiently in increasingly challenging conditions.
The publication comes at a time when the European aviation community is intensifying efforts to achieve net zero CO₂ emissions. These efforts include the DESTINATION 2050 roadmap at sector level, airport-specific Net Zero pledges and the ACI Airport Carbon Accreditation programme. At the same time, European aviation is facing mounting exposure to rising temperatures, shifting precipitation patterns and more frequent extreme weather events. These changes pose growing risks to operational continuity, infrastructure integrity, safety, connectivity and economic performance.
