Paris taxi drivers protest access to CDG while Orly earns top carbon rating
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Around 2,000 taxi drivers blocked routes to Charles de Gaulle Airport on October 15, 2026, and Paris‑Orly Airport received Level 5 Airport Carbon Accreditation after cutting its operational emissions.
CDG access protest
Approximately 2,000 taxi drivers demonstrated on Thursday, October 15, 2026, causing traffic congestion on roads leading to Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport. The protest began at Porte Maillot and moved towards the airport, with significant delays reported on the A1 motorway near Porte de la Chapelle and Le Bourget. Organisers, the Team Taxi collective, are demanding tighter controls on app‑based private‑hire vehicle services around Paris airports, and the demonstration could continue until Saturday, October 17, 2026.
Orly carbon accreditation
Paris‑Orly Airport achieved Level 5 Airport Carbon Accreditation after reducing emissions from its own operations by 92% compared with 2010 and reaching its net‑zero target for operational emissions in 2025, five years ahead of the original 2030 deadline. Remaining operational emissions in 2025 totaled 2,725 tonnes of CO₂ equivalent, while 87% of the heat consumed came from renewable sources such as geothermal, heat pumps, recovered waste heat and biomethane guarantees of origin. A heat‑pump added at the end of 2024 increased renewable heat production to about 36 GWh annually, and the combined geothermal and heat‑pump system is estimated to avoid around 7,000 tonnes of CO₂ equivalent each year. Across Groupe ADP’s facilities, electricity consumption in 2025 was about 16% below 2019 levels and heat consumption fell by roughly 35%.