OREANDA-NEWS.   On World Environment Day and as part of their commitment to the environment, LAN and TAM, LATAM Airlines Group members, measured and received external verification of their carbon footprint for 2013.
 
The measurement was made under the international standards of the Green House Gas Protocol (GHG) and verification under the standards of the ISO 14064 criteria. The process was reviewed independently by the Spanish Agency for Standardization (AENOR).
 
This measurement considered the company’s impact on the environment and its direct and indirect emissions were included, such as:
 
•         Fuel consumption in aircraft operation.
•         Fuel consumption on land (gasoline, diesel, natural gas and LPG) attributable to fixed and mobile sources.
•         Fugitive emissions from refrigerants (used in air conditioning systems).
•         Indirect emissions such as electricity consumption in administrative, operations and maintenance buildings.
•         Sources of indirect emissions related to business air travel on other airlines.
 
From the result of this study it can be concluded that LATAM Airlines Group has one of the lowest emissions per passenger kilometer in the global airline industry, i.e., 79.01 kilograms of CO2/100 RTK (RTK = revenue ton-kilometer).