“Green” security and safety for sustainable aviation is one of the biggest challenges of the civil aviation industry today and in the future. Investing in modern shared digital technologies and platforms is necessary. But to develop sustainably, Vietnam Aviation also needs to invest in raising awareness, especially for future generations.
With that spirit, the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam has implemented a series of exchange programs to disseminate knowledge to students in many places across the country, starting from Cam Ranh...
The schoolyard of Ngo Gia Tu High School, Cam Ranh City, on a September morning in 2024, seemed to be filled with emotion when hearing the touching story about Uncle Ho: "On August 30, 1969, just two days before beloved Uncle Ho passed away, Uncle Ho was seriously ill, and the doctors as well as the Politburo were always present at his bedside. When he regained consciousness, Uncle Ho immediately asked Prime Minister Pham Van Dong about the flood situation on the Red River. The Prime Minister did not dare to hide it from Uncle Ho and told him: Sir, it is raining very heavily, the flood water continues to rise and has not receded. The government wants to take Uncle Ho to a safe place to continue to rest and receive treatment. When Prime Minister Pham Van Dong made this request, how did Uncle Ho respond? "I am not going anywhere, I am staying in Hanoi with the people."
The profound and interesting Q&A session made more than 1,600 students of the school forget that this was a program to propagate and popularize the law, helping to strongly spread humanistic values. And for the organizers, the best security fence for Cam Ranh airport is the fence of the people's hearts, not money or material values. The innocent but very accurate answers of the students made many adults in the school yard ponder.
A representative of the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam said that in 2019, the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) granted the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam a Level 1 aviation safety supervision capability (CAT1). That means the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam has achieved Level 1 safety supervision capability according to US standards.
Every flight of any Vietnamese airline, from the national carrier Vietnam Airlines to Vietjet, is monitored for absolute safety according to the world's leading standards. This representative further revealed that currently in Southeast Asia, only Singapore and Vietnam have achieved this CAT1. And both safety and sustainable development are the biggest goals that Vietnam Airlines always strives for.
Along with the digital transformation that is taking place strongly around the world; The Vietnamese civil aviation industry has deployed shared digital platforms such as ACDM, PBN, ADSB... with the aim of contributing to ensuring safety and security at a higher level, contributing to reducing costs for airlines, improving management capacity, exploitation, and safe flight operations, but at the same time, the above technologies also help aircraft operate more safely, smoothly, and efficiently, thereby reducing CO2 emissions into the environment in civil aviation activities at the airport, contributing to building the image of a safe, civilized, polite, modern, green and sustainable airport.
However, when implementing international commitments on environmental protection and sustainable development; Vietnamese airlines (Vietnam Airlines, Vietjet, Bamboo Airways, Viettravel Airlines, Pacific Airlines) will be directly affected by the implementation of CORSIA, including both voluntary and mandatory phases. CORSIA (or Carbon Reduction and Offsetting Plan for International Flights) is a long-term plan issued by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), in which the voluntary phase is from 2024 to 2026, the mandatory phase is from 2027 to 2035 with the goal of achieving net zero emissions in international passenger flights (accounting for more than 60% of the total emissions of the global aviation industry).
Participating in Corsia from the voluntary phase will cause Vietnamese airlines to face many financial difficulties. According to a forecast, if participating in the voluntary phase of Corsia, the cost of purchasing credits and offsetting Carbon will be up to 162 million USD in the period 2024-2026 for Vietnam Airlines.
However, Vietnam Airlines is also working hard to complete and participate in accordance with its commitments to the international community on environmental protection and sustainable development. It is expected that Vietnam Airlines will report to the Ministry of Transport to submit to the Prime Minister to participate in Corsia in the voluntary phase from January 1, 2026.
Even Mr. Nguyen Minh Khoi, Deputy Director of Cam Ranh International Airport, was surprised by the students' understanding of a field that seemed completely new to them. To protect the environment in the field of civil aviation, aviation businesses will have to sacrifice profits to offset the costs of environmental impacts in their operations. As for a student, when answering a question, he said: "For the future of the next generations, if I become a father or mother in the future, I am also willing to sacrifice to give the best to future generations" like Uncle Ho, like my grandparents, parents or teachers at school...
When the Vietnamese aviation industry invests and deploys modern aviation security control systems such as automatic screening, biometrics, automatic check-in... to improve the efficiency of security and safety assurance and increase passenger satisfaction, what new challenges will arise?
Even aviation experts were surprised by the answer from a 10th grader, which was that the system would use more energy, emit more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, and face more cybersecurity risks due to the synchronization of many devices and machines.
If we invest in modern security and safety equipment systems to ensure the best security and safety for people, we have sacrificed a part of the profits and benefits of the aviation business; but if those equipment systems have impacts on the living environment of people, we need to continue to sacrifice a part of the profits to compensate for the impact on the environment. For example, we can invest in forest planting projects to compensate for the amount of CO2 emitted... Thus, sustainable development is a difficult choice for a better future and clearly we have to change our thinking to be ready for that. That is the affirmation of the representative of the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam at the program.
The core values of the Vietnamese civil aviation industry are always preserved and promoted, which are to ensure, maintain absolute security and safety, protect the environment, and develop sustainably, to preserve and pass on the best things to future generations. And that is also the timeless thoughts of the world cultural celebrity Ho Chi Minh that he left to the Vietnamese people: “For the benefit of 10 years, plant trees, for the benefit of a hundred years, cultivate people.”
The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam has issued Plan No. 1762/QD-CHK dated August 23, 2023 on propaganda and raising awareness of "Digital transformation associated with sustainable development of the Vietnam Civil Aviation Industry in the period of 2024-2030" to continue to consolidate and raise awareness for the collective of cadres, civil servants, employees, and workers of the entire Vietnam Civil Aviation Industry and the people and social community to join hands to ensure security, safety, environmental protection and sustainable development of the Vietnam Civil Aviation Industry, contributing to the goal of turning our country into a modern industrialized country by 2045 and achieving Net zero (net zero emissions) by 2050 according to the commitment of the Party and State leaders to the international community. The propaganda program at Cam Ranh International Airport is the first program organized under this plan.
Source: https://www.vietnamplus.vn/nganh-hang-khong-lan-toa-gia-tri-tot-dep-qua-chuong-trinh-giao-luu-voi-hoc-sinh-post979522.vnp
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