Air Canada

Air Canada's management is responsible for establishing and maintaining internal controls over material disclosures and voluntary reporting of sustainability matters. First, for effective governance, the corporate sustainability team oversees the overall disclosure framework and is responsible for collecting and reviewing with the various subject matter experts the information contained in this report, to ensure consistency, accuracy, timeliness, relevance, reliability and for assurance readiness, as the case may be. Second, this report has undergone extensive reviews by our sustainability working groups and steering committee and by our disclosure committee. [...] The Audit, Finance and Risk Committee monitors the development and, through the work of internal and external auditors, the effectiveness of relevant sustainability controls and reviews sustainability disclosures prior to their publication. The committee also reviews the results of assurance engagements.

Describe the process(es) your organization has in place to ensure that your engagement activities are consistent with your overall climate change strategy[…]Air Canada believes in the importance of transparency and collaboration among industry stakeholders and is engaged in many initiatives to better understand and positively impact environmental protection locally and globally.
Air Canada engages within an ecosystem consisting of airlines, airports, fuel suppliers, technology providers, feedstock producers, aerospace manufacturers, academia, finance, and government.

Examples include but are not limited to:
Policy Makers: Air Canada is engaged with Transport Canada through the Aviation & Noise Environmental Committee in the development of ICAO and CORSIA policies.

Trade Associations: Air Canada is engaged with various trade associations such as the National Airline Council of Canada (NACC), International Air Transport Association (IATA), Airlines for America (A4A) as well as the Air Transport Action Group (ATAG). Through the associations as are engaged in providing input in the development of policy related to aircraft emissions and sustainable aviation fuel.

Funding: Air Canada pays annual membership to the NACC, A4A, IATA as well as the Aviation Climate Taskforce (ACT)formed to tackle the challenge of rising CO2 emissions from commercial aviation.

Does your organization have a public commitment or position statement to conduct your engagement activities in line with the goals of the Paris Agreement?[…]No, and we do not plan to have one in the next two years