Aviation Insights - Some Challenges with Environmental Sustainability Metrics in Aviation
Uncertainty in environmental performance criteria is a significant obstacle in making investment decisions and furthering the aviation sustainability agenda.
Reporting on environmental performance drivers typically includes very diverse parameters. While there is some commonality between airlines’ sustainability reporting approaches, there are also numerous differences.
This paper brings to attention the dissimilarity in environmental criteria, which comes in the shape of selective reporting of metrics, different underlying methodologies, inconsistent units of measurements and the use of differently nuanced indicators.
