The Port Authority of Valencia (PAV) has reduced its carbon footprint at the port of Valencia 17.31% since 2008, the year in which the first inventory in the Climeport Project was carried out.
In the words of Federico Torres, Safety and Environment Manager of the PAV, “in 2014, the carbon footprint of the port stood at 2.58 kg equivalent per ton of CO2. This reduction of the carbon footprint comes at a period in which cargo traffic of port of Valencia grew more than 14%.” Torres has presented today these data joined by Raul Cascajo, Environmental Policy Manager, in the context of Ecofira, the international meeting of Environmental Solutions that hosts Feria Valencia.
According to Torres, “the methodology for quantifying the carbon footprint follows the requirements of ISO 14064-1: 2012, which makes to Valencia the first port in the world to verify its footprint under this reference. This methodology includes both emissions from PAV itself, as the concessionaires, ships and land transport, produced inside the port area of Valencia”. With this decrease in carbon footprint, the Port Authority of Valencia “accomplishes the commitments voluntarily acquired with the signing of the World Climate Protection Initiative -C40, signed in 2008 in Rotterdam, for the reduction of greenhouse gases in the ports”, stressed the Security and Environment Manager of the PAV.
In Ecofira, Torres has also underlined that “the commitment of the PAV to harmonize the port activities with sustainable development has also led the energy efficiency increase of the enclosure by 25%. Specifically, in this period, energy efficiency has gone from a ratio of 8.76 kWh per tonne handled in the year 2008 to 6.60 kWh in 2014”.
In Ecofira, Torres has also underlined that “the commitment of the PAV to harmonize the port activities with sustainable development has also led the energy efficiency increase of the enclosure by 25%. Specifically, in this period, energy efficiency has gone from a ratio of 8.76 kWh per tonne handled in the year 2008 to 6.60 kWh in 2014”.