Accreditation Form

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Provide the following supporting information regarding SAF and book and claim:

• Flight Fuel Purchase Log or other tracking documentation for all SAF and book and claim purchases
• Documentation of the system used to track and verify SAF purchases, and whether transportation emissions are taken into account

Emissions reductions from direct SAF deliveries or purchased SAF through book and claim for the carbon credits, individual evidence must come from fuel data, the associated calculated metric tonnes CO2 emissions, and any metric tonnes CO2 emissions savings. Applicants will also need to provide certificates of analysis and any other documentation to identify the blend and carbon index reduction.

Applicants may use the Flight Fuel Purchase Log, but other reports are accepted, if they contain the following required data for each fuel transaction:

1. Transaction date
2. Transaction identifier (i.e., Receipt number, Reference number, etc.)
3. Fuel Farm Airport Identifier (ICAO airport code)
4. Fuel vendor
5. Gallons purchased
6. Fuel transaction type (i.e. SAF/Book and Claim)
7. SAF Feedstock
8. % Neat SAF (fuel blend ratio)
9. Neat carbon intensity reduction
10. Total metric tonnes CO2 emissions
11. Lifecycle CO2 emissions savings as a result of SAF or Book and Claim
12. Net CO2 emissions (total metric tonnes with savings subtracted)

Applicants must include data from their baseline and last year.

Provide the following supporting information regarding SAF and book and claim:

• Flight Fuel Purchase Log or other tracking documentation for all SAF and book and claim purchases
• Documentation of the system used to track and verify SAF purchases, and whether transportation emissions are taken into account

Emissions reductions from direct SAF deliveries or purchased SAF through book and claim for the carbon credits, individual evidence must come from fuel data, the associated calculated metric tonnes CO2 emissions, and any metric tonnes CO2 emissions savings. Applicants will also need to provide certificates of analysis and any other documentation to identify the blend and carbon index reduction.

Applicants may use the Flight Fuel Purchase Log, but other reports are accepted, if they contain the following required data for each fuel transaction:

1. Transaction date
2. Transaction identifier (i.e., Receipt number, Reference number, etc.)
3. Fuel Farm Airport Identifier (ICAO airport code)
4. Fuel vendor
5. Gallons purchased
6. Fuel transaction type (i.e. SAF/Book and Claim)
7. SAF Feedstock
8. % Neat SAF (fuel blend ratio)
9. Neat carbon intensity reduction
10. Total metric tonnes CO2 emissions
11. Lifecycle CO2 emissions savings as a result of SAF or Book and Claim
12. Net CO2 emissions (total metric tonnes with savings subtracted)

Applicants must include data from their baseline and last year.

If your business aviation entity is claiming a reduction in net emissions from carbon credit purchases, specific emissions savings information should be identified. Include additional information, such as the project name and details, and how the purchase contributes to your business aviation entity’s goals.

If your business aviation entity has purchased credits that are not currently approved under CORSIA, explain how these credits meet similar quality and standards. If your business aviation entity does not use carbon credits as part of its net reduction strategy, explain why.

Carbon credits must be purchased from a certified or verified program. The offsets may have been purchased at any time and count toward a given calendar year, if they have not yet been claimed/retired. A carbon offset must be retired after a single use.

All applicants should provide carbon credit purchase certificates and retirement information. If your business aviation entity is not asserting a net reduction in emissions due to carbon credits, elaborate on the entity’s intentions regarding the use or non-use of offsets in the future.

If more than one transaction is made, the information should be documented via a tracking sheet. Applicants may use their own format, if it contains following required data for each transaction:

1. Date of purchase
2. Name of entity purchased from or project name
3. Metric tonnes CO2 emissions credit
4. Carbon credit standard
5. Verification of retirement of credit

Your business aviation entity must identify, through individual evidence (such as aircraft registration documentation), all aircraft owned or operated in both the baseline and last year. Aircraft acquired or sold during the baseline year or last year will be prorated.

Include all aircraft, even if you have offset 100% of emissions, because this data will be relevant for accreditation renewal. Only include aircraft operating under Part 91 corporate or fractional ownership. For OEMs, this could include demonstration, experimental and test aircraft in addition to your corporate fleet, if these aircraft are part of the business aviation entity.

Emissions from these aircraft represent your Scope 1 emissions. 

Summarize your business aviation entity’s methods to track and reduce emissions, including the following:

1. The business aviation entity’s approved monitoring plan for monitoring and reporting annual emissions
   1. Single-engine taxi procedures
   2. Long-range cruise procedures to reduce fuel used
   3. Continuous descent approach procedures
   4. Weight reducing practices
   5. Passenger education
2. The business aviation entity’s most recent verified emissions report
3. Describe any noise reduction efforts or procedures. Confirm compliance with local noise abatement procedures and linkage to safety.

If your business aviation entity is required to participate in EU-ETS, the following evidence must be provided:

1. The business aviation entity’s approved monitoring plan for monitoring and reporting annual emissions
2. The business aviation entity’s most recent verified emissions report

Applicants should refer to the EU-ETS website to confirm whether or not they qualify as a small emitter.

If your business aviation entity is required to comply with CORSIA, submit CORSIA CO2 Estimation & Reporting Tool (CERT) paperwork or other documentation verifying participation and qualified offsets purchased.

When purchasing new aircraft, participants should consider that more fuel efficient aircraft will lead to a reduction in overall carbon emissions, as well as operating costs. An environmental impact and cost effectiveness analysis of new equipment vs. current equipment should be reviewed when making capital investments. When your business aviation entity seeks to upgrade its aircraft, care should be taken to consider environmental impacts. Installation of winglets, upgrading avionics to enable direct routing, and interior upgrades to reduce weight and use sustainable materials can have environmental impacts.

Supporting documentation should include the following:

1. Summary of your business aviation entity’s aircraft acquisition strategy
2. Explanation of how sustainability requirements were included in a recent acquisition or upgrade process, and summary of environmental improvements realized as a result
3. Outline of plans to acquire or upgrade the aircraft within the coming three years, and summary of environmental requirements or considerations included in the process
4. If your entity has purchased or is purchasing a new aircraft, summary of the environmental impact and cost effectiveness analysis associated with reduced fuel use of new aircraft purchase or lease

The goal of this requirement is to analyze the impact on sustainability of any potential improvements to cabin service, while ensuring that practices to reduce waste do not lead to increased emissions. NBAA would like to know what procedures, if any, participants are implementing to reduce waste resulting from inflight service. Examples include the use of lighter weight service equipment, reduction of waste going to a landfill, and utilizing more sustainable waste management processes. Applicants may set targets for waste reduction. Ensure any in-flight service practices to reduce waste do not lead to increased fuel burn and GHG emissions.

Include the following supporting documentation:

1. Analysis of in-flight service procedures -- Summarize the current procedures addressing waste and waste reduction
2. Identification of areas where waste can be decreased -- Create a list of current products and any potential substitutions and goals. Provide as individual evidence, if preferred.
3. Process to reduce plastic waste -- Summarize the process to select eco-conscious products, packaging and reduce plastic waste for in-flight services. This should include mention of a recycling or composting program for in-flight waste, if possible.

For more information on the supporting documentation needed for each section, please click here.

Provide an update on your business aviation entity’s CO2 emissions of all individual travel, including flights, car rentals, ridesharing, etc.

Summarize your business aviation entity’s methods to reduce travel emissions, including:

• Explain the difference in travel emissions between the baseline year and last year. What is the difference attributed to? Will reductions be maintained/increased?
• Identify future plans to minimize business aviation entity employee travel emissions. Reference the goals above, if applicable (e.g. video conferencing, selecting f lights including GHG considerations, selecting flights based on the use of SAF, carbon offsetting, etc.).
• Identify any actions (i.e. educational programs, procedures, technology, incentives, etc.) implemented to encourage individuals to track their own emissions.

Provide an update on your business aviation entity’s Scope 3 travel emissions. This encompasses employee air travel, including aircraft operated by a third party (i.e. airlines, charter). Thoroughly explain the method with which CO2 emissions were tracked and calculated (e.g. business aviation entity sustainability officer, consulting service, etc). Please show your work.

The summary of your business aviation entity’s annual emissions (for both the baseline year and comparison year) must come from employee air travel data and the associated calculated metric tonnes CO2 emissions.

Applicants may use the Employee Air Travel Log, but other emissions tracking reports may be accepted if they contain the required data. Data required for each journey includes:

1. Date of travel
2. Travel Identifier (i.e. employee name, number, or other travel identifier) 
3. Type of Travel (round trip or one-way)
4. Travel origin ICAO airport code 
5. Travel destination ICAO airport code
6. Metric tonnes CO2 emissions resulting from the trip

Applicants must include information from their baseline and last year.

Your business aviation entity will need to provide an update and identify the number of direct employees in both the baseline year and last year through individual evidence, such as a tracking sheet with employee identifiers (i.e. employee number, etc.) and employment periods. Employees that worked partial years should be pro-rated.

Include all of the business aviation entity’s direct employees, regardless of whether they traveled and even if they have offset 100% of their emissions, because this data will be relevant for accreditation renewal.

Applicants must include information for their baseline and last year.

If your business aviation entity is claiming emissions reductions through contractual relationships for the purchase of SAF for passenger travel through a commercial airline, individual evidence is required. Documentation should identify proof of agreement (e.g. bill of sale or contract) and include tracking of the following data:

1. Vendor name
2. Transaction data
3. Total emissions reduction and any relevant information used to compute the carbon reduction (i.e. carbon index, blend ratio, etc)

A crucial part of understanding the environmental impact of all employee travel is emissions tied specifically to ground transportation. Different from ground support vehicle emissions, employee ground transportation emissions include rental cars, ridesharing, trains and other forms of transport utilized in association with work travel. This does not include general employee commuting.

The methods for tracking these emissions may not be yet implemented in your organization, but applicants are encouraged to initiate efforts to track emissions information to begin identifying areas of improvement. Examples of emissions reduction could include renting an electric vehicle or using alternative modes of transportation (e.g., walking, cycling or public transportation).

Summarize any emissions data from employee ground transportation for work and reductions achieved through sustainability awareness and educational efforts.

Summarize any emissions data from employee commuting and reductions achieved through educational efforts.

If your business aviation entity tracks data related to employee commuting, provide emissions summaries and any reductions achieved. If your business aviation entity does not currently track emissions data from employee commuting, elaborate on any forthcoming plans in this regard.

If your business aviation entity is claiming a reduction in net emissions from carbon credit purchases, specific emissions savings information should be identified. Include additional information, such as the project name and details, and how the purchase contributes to your business aviation entity’s goals.

If your business aviation entity has purchased credits that are not currently approved under CORSIA, explain how these credits meet similar quality and standards. If your business aviation entity does not use carbon credits as part of its net reduction strategy, explain why.

Carbon credits must be purchased from a certified or verified program. The offsets may have been purchased at any time and count toward a given calendar year, if they have not yet been claimed/retired. A carbon offset must be retired after a single use.

All applicants should provide carbon credit purchase certificates and retirement information. If your business aviation entity is not asserting a net reduction in emissions due to carbon credits, elaborate on the entity’s intentions regarding the use or non-use of offsets in the future.

If more than one transaction is made, the information should be documented via a tracking sheet. Applicants may use their own format, if it contains following required data for each transaction:

1. Date of purchase
2. Name of entity purchased from or project name
3. Metric tonnes CO2 emissions credit
4. Carbon credit standard
5. Verification of retirement of credit

Provide an update on your business aviation entity’s waste reduction strategy by describing the activities and strategies used to transition to more sustainable materials and minimize the amount of hazardous waste generated and solid waste being sent to landfill, including:

1. Identify current processes and problem areas where waste production could be decreased
2. Identify any eco-conscious packaged products to reduce plastic waste and the process to choose more of these eco-conscious products in the future 
3. Identify any business aviation entity procedures to minimize printing by transitioning to digital records and providing bins to recycle paper waste 
4. Identify any procedures to recycle ink cartridges when you are unable to eliminate printing documents
5. Summarize your recycling program including the location and number of bins, education about materials to be recycled, and any composting 
6. Identify any procedures that reduce or eliminate the use of disposable plastics
7. Identify any procedures to reduce and eliminate hazardous waste

For more information on the supporting documentation needed for each section, please click here.

Provide an update on your business aviation entity’s emissions footprint by measuring Scope 1 emissions as a result of ground support vehicles. Include emissions from propane and natural gas if used as an energy source.

Applicants must provide the total metric tonnes of CO2 emissions from ground support vehicles in the baseline and last year.

Thoroughly explain the method with which CO2 emissions were tracked and calculated (e.g. business aviation entity sustainability officer, consulting service, etc). Show your work.

Your application must include Ground Support emissions calculations from gallons (or other) of fuel uploaded, including propane and natural gas. This encompasses items that are owned and operated such as support vehicles and aircraft ground power units. Consider more sustainable fuel sources (i.e. biodiesel) or transitioning to electric powered items (while taking care that this does not increase emissions from electric power). Purchase carbon offsets for emissions that cannot be eliminated. The GHG Protocol Corporate Accounting and Reporting Standard (https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard ) provides requirements and guidance for companies and other organizations, such as business aviation entities, preparing a corporate-level GHG emissions inventory.

A summary of your business aviation entity’s annual emissions (for both the baseline year and comparison year) must come from fuel data and the associated calculated metric tonnes CO2 emissions.

Applicants may use the Ground Support Fuel Purchase Log, but other fuel tracking reports may be accepted, if they contain the required data for each transaction, in addition to annual totals. Data required for each fuel transaction includes:

1. Transaction date
2. Transaction identifier (i.e., Receipt number, Reference number, etc.)
3. Vendor or location of purchase
4. Vehicle identifier
5. Type of fuel purchased
6. Total gallons purchased
7. Total metric tonnes CO2 emissions 

Applicants must provide tracking sheet of fuel and emissions in the baseline and comparison years.

Applicants must identify, through individual evidence (such as vehicle registration documentation), all ground support vehicles owned or operated in both the baseline and reported years. Ground support vehicles acquired or sold during the year should be prorated. Include all ground support vehicles, even if you have offset 100% of emissions.

Provide an update on your business aviation entity’s efforts to monitor and increase ground support vehicle fuel efficiency. Identify existing practices or procedures to reduce ground support emissions and enhance efficiency.

If your business aviation entity is claiming emissions reductions from alternative fuel purchases, emissions savings information should be identified.

Applicants may use the Ground Support Fuel Purchase Log, but other fuel tracking reports may be accepted, if they contain the required data for each transaction, in addition to annual totals. Data required for each fuel transaction includes:

1. Transaction date
2. Transaction identifier (i.e., Receipt number, Reference number, etc.)
3. Vendor or location of purchase
4. Vehicle identifier 
5. Type of fuel purchased
6. Total gallons purchased
7. Total metric tonnes CO2 emissions
8. Metric tonnes CO2 emissions if conventional fuel used
9. Net CO2 emissions savings 

If your business aviation entity is claiming a reduction in net emissions from carbon credit purchases, specific emissions savings information should be identified. Include additional information, such as the project name and details, and how the purchase contributes to your business aviation entity’s goals.

If your business aviation entity has purchased credits that are not currently approved under CORSIA, explain how these credits meet similar quality and standards. If your business aviation entity does not use carbon credits as part of its net reduction strategy, explain why.

Carbon credits must be purchased from a certified or verified program. The offsets may have been purchased at any time and count toward a given calendar year, if they have not yet been claimed/retired. A carbon offset must be retired after a single use.

All applicants should provide carbon credit purchase certificates and retirement information. If your business aviation entity is not asserting a net reduction in emissions due to carbon credits, elaborate on the entity’s intentions regarding the use or non-use of offsets in the future.

If more than one transaction is made, the information should be documented via a tracking sheet. Applicants may use their own format, if it contains following required data for each transaction:

1. Date of purchase
2. Name of entity purchased from or project name
3. Metric tonnes CO2 emissions credit
4. Carbon credit standard
5. Verification of retirement of credit

Provide an update of your business aviation entity’s efforts to operate more fuel efficient or electric vehicles. Supporting documentation should include the following:

1. Summary of your business aviation entity’s ground support equipment acquisition strategy.
2. If claiming the use of any electric vehicles, individually list make and model of all electric powered vehicles owned/leased and identify/ describe their use in the operation.
3. If sustainability requirements were included in a recent upgrade process, summarize any environmental improvements realized as a result, or any product information regarding the improved environmental impact of a new piece of equipment.
4. If your entity has transitioned to electric powered vehicles, address how this has impacted your electricity consumption.

Provide an update your business aviation entity’s spill prevention, control and mitigation plan by describing:

1. The procedures required by law
2. Any additional procedures used by the business aviation entity that go beyond legal requirements
3. Employee training on spill prevention, control and mitigation plan (frequency, length, optional or mandatory, etc.)
4. The business aviation entity’s deicing fluid capture and recycling program (e.g. program process or steps, total fluid recycled, etc.)

For more information on the supporting documentation needed for each section, please click here.

Provide an update addressing the Scope 2 emissions as a result of infrastructure energy use, comparing emissions to a baseline year.

The program method to measure energy consumption is similar to that used by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The accreditation considers annual energy consumed per gross square foot of the building. This is calculated by dividing the total gross energy consumed in a one-year period (expressed in kilowatt-hours) from non-renewable sources. This is then converted to CO2 emissions and divided by the total gross square footage of the building.

Applicants may use the Infrastructure Energy Use Log, but other emissions tracking reports may be accepted, if they contain the required data. Data required for each energy purchase transaction includes:

1. Energy provider
2. Billing period start
3. Billing period end
4. Monthly non-renewable energy usage in kilowatts/ per hour
5. Total metric tonnes CO2 emissions resulting from non-renewable energy usage.

Applicants must provide a tracking sheet covering baseline and last year energy usage.

Supporting documentation should summarize the business aviation entity’s infrastructure square footage used in emissions calculations. Applicants must identify, through individual evidence, the total infrastructure square footage in both the baseline year and the comparison year. Include the infrastructure square footage even if you have 100% offset your emissions or use 100% renewable energy.

Applicants must provide evidence of square footage in the baseline and last year. 

Provide an update to your business aviation entity’s efforts to reduce energy consumption and increase energy efficiency:

1. Identify existing measures implemented to reduce energy consumption and enhance efficiency
2. Identify any infrastructure or appliances currently certified or recognized to an environmentally sustainable standard, or future acquisition strategies.
3. If claiming the use of any infrastructure or appliances certified or recognized as meeting an environmentally sustainable standard, individually list the infrastructure or appliances and identify/describe their use in the operation.

Consider purchasing green energy from your power company or renewable energy credits (RECs). Green energy represents renewable energy resources and technologies that provide the highest environmental benefit by reducing the emissions associated with traditional electricity sources. Sources of renewable energy include: wind power, solar power, geothermal technologies, landfill gas, biomass power, low-impact small hydropower, and on-site renewable energy (e.g., solar, wind turbine). Additionally, energy storage solutions (e.g., batteries) allow surplus wind and solar power to be stored and used later when required.

Submit the following supporting documentation related to renewable energy and RECs:

1. Summarize any renewable energy solutions implemented.
2. Identify future plans to enhance renewable energy use. Reference entity goals, if applicable (purchasing renewable energy, offsetting strategies, etc.)
3. If using renewable energy directly, individual evidence of the data must be provided. This can be included in the emissions summary individual evidence (identified above in Infrastructure #5, or applicants can use a separate tracking sheet for this information. Applicants may use the Infrastructure Energy Use Log, but other reports are accepted, if they contain the following required data for monthly energy usage includes: a. Billing date b. Location address or other identifier c. Energy provider d. Billing period start e. Billing period end f. Monthly renewable energy usage in kilowatts/per hour
4. If purchasing RECs, the business aviation entity must provide evidence of RECs or allowances purchases, as well as retirement or any other evidence that ensures the RECs or allowances are not double counted. Applicants must provide tracking sheet of renewable energy usage in the baseline and comparison years.

If your business aviation entity is claiming a reduction in net emissions from carbon credit purchases, specific emissions savings information should be identified. Include additional information, such as the project name and details, and how the purchase contributes to your business aviation entity’s goals.

If your business aviation entity has purchased credits that are not currently approved under CORSIA, explain how these credits meet similar quality and standards. If your business aviation entity does not use carbon credits as part of its net reduction strategy, explain why.

Carbon credits must be purchased from a certified or verified program. The offsets may have been purchased at any time and count toward a given calendar year, if they have not yet been claimed/retired. A carbon offset must be retired after a single use.

All applicants should provide carbon credit purchase certificates and retirement information. If your business aviation entity is not asserting a net reduction in emissions due to carbon credits, elaborate on the entity’s intentions regarding the use or non-use of offsets in the future.

If more than one transaction is made, the information should be documented via a tracking sheet. Applicants may use their own format, if it contains following required data for each transaction:

1. Date of purchase
2. Name of entity purchased from or project name
3. Metric tonnes CO2 emissions credit
4. Carbon credit standard
5. Verification of retirement of credit

The goal of this requirement is to ensure that water management is addressed as part of a business aviation entity’s sustainability initiatives. Metering, measuring and managing facility water use can help identify saving opportunities. This also assures the equipment is running correctly and maintained properly to help prevent water waste from leaks or malfunctioning mechanical equipment.

Supporting documentation should include the following:

1. Summary of your business aviation entity’s water usage. This includes:
   1. Total annual quantity used in gallons.
   2. Summary of activities that use water (i.e. landscape irrigation, aircraft washing, facilities & restrooms, etc.)
2. Summary or list of implemented water use reduction solutions

Your business aviation entity will need to provide, through individual evidence, a summary of your annual water usage. Baseline year and comparison year individual evidence must come from water usage data. Applicants should create a water management tracking sheet that contains the required data to monitor progress and specifies the building address or other identifier.

Data required for each monthly water usage include:

1. Billing date
2. Utility provider name
3. Billing period start
4. Billing period end
5. Total water usage in gallons/per month

Applicants must provide tracking sheet of water usage in the baseline and comparison years.

Infrastructure resiliency is a critical part of protecting communities and resources amidst changing climate conditions. Consider conducting an infrastructure resiliency assessment to understand potential extreme weather event stressors. Facility-specific considerations include: below-grade areas; mechanical and electrical systems; facility construction details; utility systems; and stormwater infrastructure.

Summarize the infrastructure resiliency assessment process, including:

1. Identify services utilized to conduct assessments
2. Identify any documented results, recommendations, or feedback
3. Identify any solutions implemented or those that are being planned

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