EUROCONTROL and EASA Launch AVENIR Environmental Catalogue for ANSPs

EUROCONTROL and the European Union Aviation Safety Agency have published the AVENIR Environmental Catalogue, a resource aimed at air navigation service providers (ANSPs) that want to measure and reduce the environmental effects of their operations. It was launched on 28 September 2026.

What the catalogue contains

The document is an overview of the environmental tools, dashboards, use cases and analytical methods available to ANSPs. According to the agencies, it is designed to help users:

• monitor environmental performance;
• analyse fuel burn and emissions;
• support environmental reporting;
• explore mitigation measures; and
• identify suitable tools for a particular environmental question.

It compiles analytical tools, monitoring dashboards and data solutions together with operational use cases, and includes mapping tables that link each solution to the environmental topic it addresses. Rather than prescribing a method, it works as a reference that lets a provider find what exists and judge what fits its own airspace.

A “living resource”

EUROCONTROL and EASA describe the catalogue as a living resource. It will be updated as new tools appear, and future editions are expected to add content on the non-CO2 effects of aviation, such as contrails, an area where methods are less mature than for carbon emissions.

The catalogue was produced by the joint AVENIR Working Group, which brings together experts from more than 15 ANSPs, alliances and institutions.

Official positions

EUROCONTROL Director General Raúl Medina said the work with EASA supports the objectives of the organisation’s Trajectory 2030 strategy “by strengthening environmental transparency”. EASA Executive Director Florian Guillermet said the catalogue gives ANSPs and the wider aviation community “a clear, practical overview of the environmental tools available”.

Context

The release arrived in the same month as EASA’s report that the EU exceeded its 2025 sustainable aviation fuel mandate under ReFuelEU Aviation. Fuel is one lever; the other is how aircraft are routed and sequenced, which is where ANSPs have the most influence. Shorter, more direct routes, better vertical profiles and reduced holding all cut fuel burn, but providers need consistent data to show what a change achieves.

By collecting the available tools in one place, the agencies aim to reduce duplication of effort across the many European providers and make it easier for smaller ANSPs to adopt methods already proven elsewhere. The catalogue does not set binding requirements. Its value will depend on whether providers use it to build comparable reporting, and the agencies have indicated they will extend it over time.

Provider participation will be key. The working group draws on more than 15 ANSPs, which gives the catalogue practical grounding, but the benefit comes when providers outside that group begin to use the same tools and the same definitions. A common vocabulary for fuel burn and emissions metrics would also make it easier for airlines and regulators to compare performance between airspaces.