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Limited
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Flughafen Zurich AG has established an internal advisory panel, the “Public Affairs Committee,” which “chiefly monitors political matters that are relevant to Zurich Airport and acts as an advisory panel for political issues of strategic importance to the company,” and the Board of Directors “exercises ultimate oversight of responsible business conduct” with oversight provided through monthly Management Information System reports and reviews by the Audit & Finance Committee, to which Internal Audit “reports directly to the Chairman.” The company engages directly with policymakers through regular events, technical meetings and a “Political Newsletter” issued “at least four times a year,” and participates in indirect lobbying via membership in industry associations such as the “Swiss Business Council for Sustainable Development” and “ACI Europe.” However, the company does not disclose a formal policy or mechanism to align its lobbying activities—whether direct advocacy or through trade associations—with specific climate objectives; we found no evidence of a climate-focused lobbying review process or criteria to ensure its political engagement supports its environmental goals.
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Moderate
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Zurich Airport Ltd. supplies a reasonable amount of information on how it tries to influence public policy, but far less on the exact climate-related measures it is pursuing. On lobbying mechanisms, the company is quite specific: it says it communicates its positions through a “Political Newsletter” aimed at politicians and officials, holds “regular and ad hoc meetings” with “members of the Government Council, the Cantonal Parliament or the competent authorities” and with federal bodies such as “the Federal Council, commissions of the Federal Assembly … and the Federal Office of Civil Aviation (FOCA),” and has launched joint initiatives such as “Back in the Air” to present concrete proposals to the Swiss President. This clearly identifies several distinct channels and the policymaking targets of those efforts. In terms of the policies addressed, the disclosures remain high-level. The only identifiable climate-related measure referenced is the Swiss Federal Council’s proposed revision of the CO₂ Act mandating increasing blends of Sustainable Aviation Fuel; other references are to broad areas such as “environmental policy issues” or “infrastructure, transport and spatial planning.” Finally, the company’s explanation of the outcomes it is seeking is general rather than precise: it “supports mandating a gradually increasing percentage of SAF” and favours “risk-based safety measures” over blanket travel bans, but offers no quantified targets or detailed legislative amendments it wants adopted. Overall, the airport operator is transparent about whom it talks to and how, yet provides limited detail on the specific climate policies it lobbies and the concrete results it aims to secure.
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