International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)

www.icao.int
HQ: Montreal, Canada
Focal Point: Lorenzo Gavilli

The entity may not report waste data for all its personnel. Please refer to the entity's personnel chart below for more information.
All entity personnel are included in the entity's greenhouse gas emission inventory.

MISSION

A specialized agency of the United Nations, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) was set up in 1944 to promote safe and orderly development of international civil aviation worldwide. It sets standards and regulations for aviation safety, security, efficiency and regularity, and for aviation environmental protection. The Organization serves as the forum for cooperation in all fields of civil aviation among its 190 Contracting States.

EMS AND REDUCTION EFFORTS

ICAO has implemented a series of environmentally friendly measures and practices such as conducting paperless meetings, using audio, video, and web-meeting services when practical, and many other initiatives aimed to reduce our energy consumption. ICAO’s headquarters in Montreal was the first LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Gold-certified building in Canada.

In 2009, a World Environment Day celebration was organized at ICAO to sensitize ICAO staff and families on climate-change issues and carbon neutrality. Environmental green tips are addressed to staff on how to reduce their individual carbon footprint disseminated weekly through ICAO’s Secretariat website.

Each year, as part of the Greening the Blue Report on Environmental Governance, each participating UN entity’s progress on the development of an Environmental Management System (EMS) is evaluated according to the UN system’s EMS criteria (these criteria are available on the Methodology webpage). Upon this evaluation the entity is then rated Exceeds, Meets, Approaches, or No response. For the 2022 reporting year, ICAO’s progress on the EMS is rated as: No response.

ENVIRONMENTAL & SOCIAL SAFEGUARDS AND STANDARDS IN POLICIES, PROJECTS AND PROGRAMMES

For the 2022 reporting year, ICAO’s status of implementing environmental and social safeguards and standards in their policies, projects and programmes is: No response.

ENVIRONMENTAL TRAINING FOR PERSONNEL

For the 2022 reporting year, ICAO’s status on providing training on environmental sustainability is: No response.

OFFSETTING

ICAO will consider any offset measures in the light of further discussions and decisions at UN level in this area.

NEXT STEPS

The ICAO emission reduction strategy is being prepared and will be based on the results of the verified greenhouse gas inventory and the guidance materials / recommendations to be issued by the Environmental Management Group (EMG), the Issues Management Group (IMG) and Sustainable United Nations (SUN).

ICAO and sustainability