The Observatory of Sustainability in Aviation (OBSA) aims to be a reference point on aviation and sustainability, for rigorous compilation, elaboration, analysis, evaluation and diffusion of the existing basic information on sustainability in the sector, considering the social, economic and environmental dimensions.
OBSA is an independent project, initiative of the Spanish State company SENASA.
Read more about Sustainability in Aviation in the Spanish version of this website.
OBSA has published the second report of sustainibility in aviation in Spain, that provides indicators of sustainability relating to air transport in Spain, whose main purpose is to serve as a reference and provide evidences, in this way, the decisions and strategies relating to aviation in Spain are made based on the best information available.
The report will be renewed annually with the intention of contributing to sustainable development of the sector in Spain, so as improve the sector transparency for citizens.
To begin the accounting process, the Commission partly activated its registry to centralize carbon allowance accounts currently held under national registries, pending full activation, which will not take place before June. The effect is that aircraft operators can open accounts in the central EU registry and will then become eligible for free allowances.
In this section we present the results of the project Definition of Indicators of environmental impact of Air Transport for their reduction (DIATA). Aviation industry must stay active in pursuing and promoting solutions for achieving sector´s sustainability. The DIATA project is part of the answer to diagnose the current situation of the sector through indicators and adequate models.
In this section we provide information on non acoustic aspects of aircraft noise. Until recently, researches were focus on the acoustic component of the discomfort (eg sound pressure level, decibels). However, lately - thanks to groups such as ANNA - non-acoustic factors are increasing importance of aviation among experts in noise.
Page last updated: February 3, 2012.
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