Lessors Continue to Get Serious About Aviation’s Sustainable Future

April 21, 2023

Over the past decade, increasing sustainability concerns among investors and financiers have transformed the commercial aviation landscape, compelling industry participants, including aircraft lessors, to spotlight their environmental, social and governance (“ESG”) policies. Lessors are now giving more importance to the three growing sustainability related factors in their decision-making and business 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 built a continually updated library of 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.