ÇELEBİ HAVA SERVİSİ ANNUAL REPORT 2024

29 Çelebi Ground Handling 2024 Annual Report 3. Our Environmental Programs and Practices Our Company recognizes the importance of utilizing natural resources essential for sustaining a healthy lifestyle while considering the needs of future generations and the associated responsibilities. Under the main headings of combating the climate crisis, optimizing natural resource utilization, and preventing environmental pollution-waste management, our Company conducts the following programs and practices: 3.1. Combating Climate Change - As part of our commitment to the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), voluntarily calculating our greenhouse gas inventory and making this information available to the public and international investors, along with other practices we carry out to address the climate crisis, - Purchasing and deploying electric vehicles (tractors, ladders, push-backs, passenger cars, etc.,) instead of fossil fuel- consuming vehicles we use in our Apron Services, as well as converting the current fossil fuel equipment to electric, - Utilizing lithium-ion batteries that are environmentally friendly in instead of traditional lead batteries, - Conducting energy efficiency studies in our buildings and facilities (ventilation/cooling systems automation and isolation studies, conversion to LED lighting, etc.), - Preventing paper use and reducing cartridge and toner waste by reducing printouts as a result of digitalizing business processes carried out with printed documents in our Operations, Human Resources, Administrative Affairs, Quality and other departments, - Maintaining control over air pollutant emission sources by regularly conducting flue gas analyses through accredited institutions, - Participating in the İstanbul Airport Climate Change Adaptation Action Plan Preparation Project of İGA to carry out greenhouse gas emission and reduction studies, - Ensuring the reduction of greenhouse gases through involvement in the DHMİ’s Carbon-Free Airport Project. Efforts on increasing the use of renewable energy and transition to electricity with zero or minimal carbon emissions: - Utilization of solar panels in our buildings, - Installation of solar panels on our passenger stairs with canopy. As part of our efforts to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions from our third parties (suppliers, subcontractors, dealers, etc.), we have ensured that our suppliers providing personnel vehicle services are taking the following measures: - Preventing excessive fuel consumption and reducing cooling gas leakage by performing regular maintenance and controls on service vehicles, - In the process of setting the service routes, planning by selecting the shortest alternative routes, and assessing with Çelebi Ground Handling the service requirements of the newly recruited personnel in line with these routes, and reducing fuel consumption by keeping route changes at minimum.