IATA - Climate issue becoming material for airline investors

Friday, September 13, 2019

This Chart Of The Week comes from recent research by Andrew Lobbenberg and his colleagues at HSBC Bank. For much of the past two decades the climate change issue, though increasingly important for scientists, policy-makers and the general public, had not been considered a material issue for airline investors. That looks like changing. HSBC report a substantial spike this year in the number of times this issue has been discussed at European airline calls with investors. There was an earlier spike of airline investor engagement with airlines on climate issues in 2011, when it was announced … read more