Airbus // Universal Registration Document 2021

1. Information on the Company’s Activities / 1.2 Non-Financial Information

structures. Another example is the halon replacement project that researches alternatives to halon, a highly regulated ozone depleting substance, used for the fire extinguishing systems in engines and cargo areas. Noise Noise around the Company’s sites can also be an important topic for neighbouring communities. The Company is actively engaged with local authorities and the affected population to minimise its impact, by adapting operating times and actively seeking to reduce the noise at the source. In Toulouse, Airbus has launched the Median initiative regrouping actors in charge of flight activities around the airport to find the most effective solution to reduce noise levels. Light pollution caused by Airbus activities has been deemed to be non-material to the Company’s value chain.

Using information obtained from its suppliers, the Company tracks, registers, assesses and declares regulated substances. Since 2011, the Company has analysed the impact of over 1,100 substances and qualified and deployed substitutes for over 100 substances in 300 products. Currently, the Company is actively working to substitute 65 substances in its own design, and an additional 45 in its supply chain, over the next five years. The Company invests substantial time and resources in research and development for technologies that use alternatives to regulated substances. When it can be demonstrated that these technologies meet the strict safety and reliability criteria required for aviation, the Company seeks to implement them in its aircraft design and manufacturing. For example, the Company is, in cooperation with its suppliers, developing, qualifying and progressively deploying on all its new aircraft, new Chromate- free corrosion protection and paint systems for aluminium

2. Product operations According to “ Our World in Data ”, air transport as a whole represents approximately 2% of global human-induced GHG emissions, and around 12% of the transport sector emissions – see graph 1. Graph 1: Global greenhouse gas emissions by sector – source: Our World in Data with data from Climate Watch, the World Resources Institute (2020)

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