Environmental

Environment

Dragonair has been working closely with The Nature Conservancy (TNC) since 2004 on the inflight charity fundraising campaign “Change for Conservation”, to raise awareness of the importance of nature conservation. As of March 2010, a total of HK$7.6 million has been raised.

The fund is used in northwest Yunnan, China to: create a system of protected areas with the policies and funding necessary to sustain them; to protect vital watershed areas, especially along the Yangtze and Mekong rivers; to alleviate poverty, one of the principal causes of unsustainable natural resource use and biodiversity loss; and to develop sustainable economic alternatives for the people there.

Sustainable Development Report

Cathay Pacific has been reporting since 1997 as part of a commitment to transparency and accountability to our stakeholders. Reporting enables us to communicate our performance and outline our future commitments.

Our Sustainable Development Report for 2009 details Cathay Pacific's impact on the environment and the communities in which we operate, as well as the efforts we are making towards managing those impacts (for example, our Supplier Code of Conduct) . While we cannot include all events and initiatives undertaken during the year, we have endeavored to demonstrate a balanced review of the organisation's most significant activities, together with our strategy for dealing with our economic, social and environmental progress for the year.

We are pleased to announce our achievement of an A+ Global Reporting Initiative grade in this report and we have revamped the environmental and social statistics table to demonstrate compliance with this rating. The report has been independently verified.

We value stakeholders' feedback. Comments on the Report can be made through our Environmental Affairs Department at environment@cathaypacific.com. We encourage your feedback to help us better deliver the information you seek.

Our previous reports can be accessed at the links below. All downloadable files are in PDF format and can be viewed using Adobe Acrobat Reader. You can download the Reader at no cost from Adobe's Web site.

Sustainable Development Report 2009 (PDF 3.46MB)
Sustainable Development Report – Summary 2009 (PDF 411KB)
Corporate Social Responsibility Report 2008 (PDF 4.69MB)
Corporate Social Responsibility Report 2007 (PDF 2.27MB)
Corporate Social Responsibility Report 2006 (PDF 1.79MB)
Environmental Report 2005 (PDF 329KB)
Environmental Report 2004 (PDF 1.84MB)
Environmental Report 2003 (PDF 1.44MB)