Air New Zealand Limited (AIR) 2017年CSR报告「ASX」.pdf

1、Sustainability2017The Year in ReviewFrom the Sustainability Advisory Panel ChairKia ora,Air New Zealand is setting out to do something rather different from most airlines.First,to take stock of all the many sustainability challenges that face us,both locally and globally,objectively assessing the ex

2、isting data on a wide range of environmental,social and economic issues.Nothing new there.But Air New Zealand is then intent on working out an appropriate course of action for addressing each and every one of those challenges,however inconvenient a process that might be.And its doing all this with a

3、 degree of transparency(and openness to external scrutiny)that for most airlines would induce a chronic attack of the heebie-jeebies.Airlines tend to share both performance data and their particular problems on a strictly need to know basis.There is a lot to commend Air New Zealands strategy.For tho

4、se who argue that aviation represents a uniquely unacceptable part of our carbon-intensive lifestyles,Air New Zealands success(more flights,more passengers,more freight)will be seen as very problematic.And the truth of it is that we shouldnt turn away from that uncompromising analysis:the hard-edged

5、 physical reality of accelerating climate change tells us that theres absolutely no way emissions from aviation can keep on growing indefinitely into the future,especially when the carbon footprint of every other aspect of our lives is simultaneously being driven down and down.And thats the dilemma

6、for anyone who cares passionately about addressing the multiple threats of climate change:either stop flying altogether(the logical but somewhat unworldly idealists position),or fly as little and as discriminatingly and responsibly as possible(the often uncomfortable pragmatists position).By definit