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Who's at the top table? The positioning of sustainability leadership in aviation.

In this report, our Sustainability & Energy Transition Principal Alex Hyde examines sustainability leadership trends in aviation, focusing on a number of leading airlines.


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2025 has been a challenging year for leaders of sustainability functions across all sectors, and aviation is no exception. With significant practical barriers to achieving decarbonisation and ambitious targets to address, the pressure on sustainability leaders in aviation is acute.


Last year, I shared a whitepaper exploring why sustainability leaders are underrepresented at the C-suite across a range of industries. For this piece of research, Venari Partners has done a deep dive into aviation, seeking to understand how the sector is positioning sustainability within organisation structures.


Download this latest report to learn how leading airlines are approaching sustainable leadership, and just how much access chief sustainability officers have to the corridors of power (if they are represented on the C-suite at all):




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