ANZ CEO Rob Fyfe Takes Off Gloves to Fight Environmental Inertia
by Geoffrey Thomas (Eco-Aviation Today) In one of the hardest-hitting speeches in recent times, Air New Zealand CEO Rob Fyfe lashed out at the “inconvenient truth” that the world’s leaders, regulators and airlines are continuing to “invest enormous resources the world over in debating climate change regulatory frameworks and yet failing to take even the most basic steps to actually reduce emissions.”
Speaking at the Greener Skies conference in Hong Kong organized by Orient Aviation magazine last week, Fyfe said that these “policy discussions and the hand-wringing over agreeing to emission reduction targets are interminable and they are distracting us from the far more important focus of taking action. This is simply a travesty. … He has challenged his team to position ANZ as the “most environmentally responsible airline on the planet.” He claimed that the carrier has achieved a 10% improvement in fuel intensity since 1995 and expects a 15% improvement in the next 10 years. READ MORE
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