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We’re helping to design and deliver an ambitious carbon reduction programme for Heathrow Airport, as it moves towards net zero by 2050.
The decarbonisation of aviation is one of society's most complex challenges and is a central element of Heathrow Airport’s business strategy. The UK’s biggest airport has set a carbon reduction target of 2.3 million tonnes by end of 2026.
Mott MacDonald was appointed as Programme Designer to shape and deliver Heathrow’s H7 Carbon and Sustainability Programme, (which runs throughout the H7 regulatory period, 2022-26) and to help transform the business.
We built a multi-disciplinary team drawing on expertise from across aviation, wider transportation, and energy sectors. We bring knowledge in how to design, integrate and develop decarbonised energy systems incorporating renewables, storage, decarbonisation of heat, and vehicle charging.
We are advising on energy transition, operational and embodied carbon, future fuels, behavioural change, data and digital and smart systems among many other areas. We’re working with Heathrow and its wider stakeholders to drive sustainable aviation globally and share best practice as we help to design, manage and integrate their decarbonisation programme in the years ahead.
The Carbon and Sustainability Programme will see Heathrow invest around £200m over five years; there are over 20 projects covering surface access, energy, airport operations, heat decarbonisation and data transformation, contributing to near term carbon reduction goals and laying the plans to achieve net zero by 2050.
As a result of this programme, Heathrow will significantly transform its business and supply chains, incorporating new commercial and delivery models and new ways of working. Carbon and sustainability considerations will be further embedded into decision making, procurement and project design. As a leading hub airport, Heathrow is likely to inspire others to follow suit in building an all-encompassing energy transformation programme to ensure a sustainable aviation future.
Delivering decarbonisation fairer and faster was the theme of Carbon Crunch 2025 in London this autumn. Keynote speaker Nigel Topping, the new chair of the Climate Change Committee, along with other speakers at the event explored why fairer matters and how going faster is critical to competitiveness.
In 2023, Mott MacDonald’s report Zero Emissions English Airports: Target Further Analysis, produced for the Department for Transport, explored the commercial feasibility of decarbonising airport operations across England.
How Port of Dover is leading the way on the drive to net zero was presented at Carbon Crunch 2025 in London and the session explored why decarbonisation strategies must be translated into tangible activities.
Government has set out a Clean Power 2030 plan to decarbonise the electricity sector. But there is more to reaching this target in a fast and fair way than just finance, technology and infrastructure, according to speakers at Carbon Crunch 2025 in London.
Mott MacDonald’s recent webinar explored how NHS organisations can utilise the Climate Adaptation Framework to design, develop and implement best-practice plans.
Mott MacDonald has been appointed by Iarnród Éireann to lead the CONNECT rail project, an ambitious national programme set to transform Ireland’s intercity rail network and accelerate the country’s transition to net zero.
Mott MacDonald has been appointed as Airports Masterplan Framework consultant by Matarat Holding to advise on airport development across Saudi Arabia.
Claudio Tassistro, managing director energy, Europe commented: “Changes announced today to the judicial review process will be critical to successful delivery of the government’s 10-Year Infrastructure Strategy and clean energy 2030 target."
The three-year partnership will support London St. Pancras Highspeed in delivering its long-term vision to be the most sustainable transport option across the UK and Europe and the world’s leading high-speed rail experience.
Mott MacDonald has been appointed to three lots on the newly launched Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) Transport Professional Services Framework 2025.
The appointment cements Mott MacDonald's position as a key supplier of high-value advisory services to government and public sector organisations.
Lessons learned from renewal of the runway at RAF Lossiemouth in Scotland in 2021 have benefitted the recently completed runway refurbishment works at RAF Leeming.
Systems thinking enabled better stakeholder and asset owner collaboration to identify and act on shared climate risk in London.
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