Direct Lobbying Transparency
| Overall Assessment | Comment | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Strong | Asia Aviation PCL and its operating airline Thai AirAsia provide a relatively detailed picture of their climate-policy engagement. The disclosures name three identifiable policies or regulatory processes they are involved in: participation in the Civil Aviation Authority of Thailand’s (CAAT) “Aviation Sector Climate Change Panel” that is drafting an aviation energy-conservation and carbon-reduction action plan, work to meet the International Civil Aviation Organization’s carbon-credit requirement, and ongoing compliance with CAAT rules that require airlines to file fuel-use and emissions reports. They also explain how they seek to influence these policies, describing direct engagement through the CAAT panel, co-leading the industry-government “Thai Aviation Sustainability Day 2024” forum, and providing data and feedback to CAAT, all of which identify CAAT as the specific policymaking target. Finally, the company sets out clear objectives for these activities: shaping the forthcoming national action plan for aviation, ensuring that future Thai regulations align with ICAO carbon-credit rules, and helping define the reporting and mitigation obligations that will govern the sector. Together, these elements demonstrate a strong level of transparency on what the company is lobbying for, how it conducts that lobbying and the outcomes it hopes to achieve, even though not every individual engagement mechanism is described in depth. | 3 |