Including climate change in airport EIAs

ABSTRACT

Projects and their Environmental Impact Assessments should take account of global cumulative impacts such as those associated with Greenhouse Gas Emissions. The emissions induce the climate emergency which is a major determinant of public health and much else. This opinion paper identifies some challenges and improvements that could be made in current policy, procedure, and methods for mitigating the climate emergency in airport expansion. It does so by analysing the Environmental Statement for the Leeds and Bradford Airport expansion plan, together with existing international, national, and local climate change policies.

KEYWORDS:

• Climate
• emissions
• policies
• mitigation
• airport
• health

Acknowledgments

I thank friends and anonymous reviewers who were kind enough to read drafts and suggest improvements.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.