LFV continually tries to find new ways to reduce aircraft emission. We focus on the airplanes' movements, working methods and technical systems. We are also working on our internal emissions, for example by using interactive types of meetings as well as minimizing our internal resource use at all levels in our day-to-day work.

Through our interactive and action-oriented educational programmes, we encourage everyone to make a contribution towards our future.

Thu 9 Apr 2009 – From today, certain flight routes over Sweden will be straighter as a result of a new system called Free Route Airspace Sweden (FRAS), which is being introduced for a trial period of two years. FRAS will allow flights cruising above flight level 285 (about 9,000 metres) and north of the 61st parallel to choose their own routes. Air navigation service provider LFV says that as a result, CO2 emissions are expected to be reduced by around 17,000 tonnes per year.

“When fully introduced in 2011 we expect airlines to save about 10 flying hours per day and with each hour costing airlines about SEK100,000 ($12,000), total daily savings will be in the region of SEK1 million ($120,000),” said Kenneth Johansson, Manager, Business En Route, at the LFV Group.

According to calculations, CO2 emissions from the most common type of aircraft, the Boeing 737-600, will be reduced by 5.8 tonnes per flying hour when using the system.

With its Roadmap for moving to a competitive low-carbon economy in 2050, the European Commission has looked beyond these short-term objectives and set out a cost-effective pathway for achieving much deeper emission cuts by the middle of the century. All major economies will need to make deep emission reductions if global warming is to be held below 2�C compared to the temperature in pre-industrial times. The Roadmap is one of the long-term policy plans put forward under the Resource Efficient Europe flagship initiative intended to put the EU on course to using resources in a sustainable way. The Roadmap suggests that, by 2050, the EU should cut its emissions to 80% below 1990 levels through domestic reductions alone. It sets out milestones which form a cost-effective pathway to this goal - reductions of the order of 40% by 2030 and 60% by 2040. It also shows how the main sectors responsible for Europe's emissions - power generation, industry, transport, buildings and construction, as well as agriculture - can make the transition to a low-carbon economy most cost-effectively.