Lessors Up Their Game in Driving Aviation’s Sustainable Future with Increased ESG Activity and Reporting

April 25, 2022

The increasing demand for information regarding aircraft lessors’ Environmental, Social and Governance (“ESG”) strategies and market activities is coming from many stakeholders, chief among them investors and financiers who are giving more importance to the three growing sustainability related factors in their due diligence and credit rating processes.

More and more players in the aviation finance industry embrace creative ways to chart their decarbonization journeys by embedding ESG into their corporate governance frameworks and introducing metrics to encourage strong performance in ESG across their organizations. Experts believe that ESG leadership will be a source of competitive advantage and aircraft leasing will have an increasingly influential role in the future of the industry.

Leading lessors are already increasingly vocal about their commitment to sustainable aviation, as evidenced by an increase in the number of lessors authoring reports with ongoing updates on related initiatives as they fashion and declare their sustainability and ESG strategies.

These reports demonstrate tangible steps lessors are taking to commit resources to ensure that ESG is integrated into their business models and core product offerings.

We’ve compiled a library of recent ESG reports to showcase lessors’ lead-by-example efforts on all aspects of ESG and how their initiatives align with the wider aviation industry’s strategies and commitments to aviation sustainability.