Sustainable Aviation Intelligence

20 Aug 2026

ESG reporting: What aircraft lessors should know about the VSME-based ‘Voluntary Standard’

The European Commission has adopted a delegated act establishing the Sustainability Reporting Standard for Voluntary Use...

6 Aug 2026

Eight lessors retain portfolio sustainability targets, but avoid energy mix commitments

This update revisits Ishka Airfinance SAVi’s May 2025 analysis, which identified 20 targets across six lessors. ACG and ...

16 Jul 2026

SBTi’s Net-Zero update gives corporate SAF buyers a clearer route

This is a guest report by Harvey Carlin, a Digital Communications Specialist at low-carbon commodity company StarCB (SCB...

29 May 2026

SAVi Five: EU Taxonomy aviation revisions get PSF input, Maeve declared bankrupt, and more…

The European Commission’s Platform on Sustainable Finance (PSF), the same working group that once led the EU Taxonomy’s ...

23 Mar 2026

Climate risk management in 21st century Aircraft and Airport Insurance

This report examines the obligations placed on firms under SS5/25 and the categories of climate-related risk that aviati...

29 Jan 2026

Aviation emissions reporting: a look at Japan

This article is the fourth in a series examining the evolving emissions disclosure regulations and their impacts on the ...

5 Dec 2025

AC25 round-up: US & China’s CORSIA stance, credit supplies, prices, and more…

This third and final AC25 report summarises the main takeaways around CORSIA adoption, including insurance products bein...

14 Nov 2025

SAVi Five: EU Parliament backs narrower CSRD scope, Taxonomy consultation, COP30 latest, and more…

The European Parliament this week adopted a negotiating position on the Omnibus I simplification, backing a change in CS...

2 Oct 2025

Contrails: The barriers to aviation’s low-hanging fruit

Five years after EASA’s report highlighted the climate-warming potential of contrails, Ishka investigates in this two-pa...

1 Sep 2025

A look across EU Taxonomy disclosures by European airlines

Ishka SAVi gathered EU Taxonomy disclosure data from 11 out of a sample of 15 major European airlines. Here’s how they f...

1 Aug 2025

SAVi Five: EU makes post-CSRD VSME recommendation, Heathrow submits expansion plan, and more…

The European Commission on 30th July adopted a recommendation on voluntary sustainability reporting for SMEs that presen...

28 Jul 2025

EU SAF Mandate: What exactly has gone wrong in its first six months?

This report unpacks the implementation problems of the EU’s SAF mandate in the first half of 2025.

9 Jul 2025

Aviation emissions reporting: a look at North America

This article is the third in a series examining the evolving emissions disclosure regulations and their impacts on the a...

30 May 2025

SAVi Five: EU inquiry into Omnibus, 2030s jet fuel price volatility, Japanese ETS threshold

The European Ombudswoman at the end of last week opened an inquiry into how the European Commission prepared a legislati...

12 May 2025

Sustainability targets: Only six of 34 analysed lessors have public portfolio targets

This is Ishka SAVi’s initial attempt to benchmark sustainability disclosure by the aircraft leasing sector as well as ho...

14 Mar 2025

SAVi Five: First airline EU Taxonomy disclosures, NZBA’s 1.5C pivot, US SAF policy updates, and more…

With the start of the airline annual reporting season, some of the first reports to include EU Taxonomy aviation criteri...

27 Feb 2025

EU changes could ease CSRD ‘green tape’ for lessors – but do use caution

Key proposed changes proposed relevant to CSRD and the EU Taxonomy in yesterday’s Omnibus Package. The immediate picture...

25 Feb 2025

Explainer: CORSIA Phase 1

How it works, its scale, challenges, and cost. This one-page Explainer provides a brief summary of the current state of ...

17 Feb 2025

Omnibus Package: With the EU set to simplify sustainability reporting, what should lessors do?

This joint report by David Lowe, VP Marketing Aviation at Fexco & PACE, and the Ishka SAVi team combines Ishka’s summary...

7 Feb 2025

Mind the baseline: progress in banks’ aviation portfolio emissions intensity

Some emissions intensity targets with pandemic baselines have been followed by significant declines in emissions intensi...