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Airports are a vital part of the aviation infrastructure that promotes socio-economic development and environmental pollution. Arguably there are no mature green building rating tools for assessing the construction and operation of airports. There is a justified and imminent need for developing such a green rating tool for airports considering the following: (i) carbon emission potential, (ii) number of passengers served, (iii) number of flights operated, and (iv) the expansion of air-routes to newer destinations in developing nations which has directly resulted in an exponential proliferation in the number of airports. This paper aims to develop an airport-specific green rating framework. This framework can be realized as a tool that assesses the greenery of airport operations based on environmental indicators. Content Analysis approach is used to retrieve environmental information from airport sustainability reports and …