Sustainable Airport Areas

| Subject: Metropolis, International Relations

The Barcelona Metropolitan Area (AMB) participates in a program in Atlanta to improve the sustainability of airports and their surrounding environment.

The AMB participated in the second seminar of the project "Sustainable Airport Areas" which aims to identify and transfer the best practices in terms of sustainable development and operation of airport centres. This activity was carried out through an exchange of experiences among the members of the project in order to allow local public officials to create or develop policies to improve the quality of life of the inhabitants of these areas and the development conditions of companies at airports.

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The findings of this second seminar, held in Atlanta on 20 September, have recently been published. During the meeting, Sergi Alegre, the Deputy Mayor of the City Council of El Prat de Llobregat and President of the ARC (Airports Regions Conference), participated as a representative of the AMB, together with delegates from five other international airports: Atlanta, Paris-CDG, Beijing, Dakar, and Vantaa, as well as international and academic experts.

Alegre highlighted the main challenges for the Barcelona airport: developing air connections with Asia (China and Japan), important both for tourism and for business; developing the top airport platform for offices, hotels, and companies; and improving public transport (both the metro, which has come this year, as well as train connections with T1 terminal, in the next 3-4 years).

"Sustainable Airport Areas" is a project co-funded by the programme Metropolis Iniciatives, and led by the Regional Council of Paris and the IAU (Urban Planning and Development Agency in Paris), together with the Hubstart Association of the Paris Region, the Orly International, the City Council of Atlanta (USA), Paris Airports, Paris Region Entreprises and the AMB, which have been driving the initiative.

The project will result in the publication of a guide of good practices for sustainable airport areas, which will be presented during the 12th Metropolis Congress in Montreal, from 19 to 23 June 2017.

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Georgia Resource Center (Atlanta)