Environment

We recently launched YVR’s 2025-2027 Strategy  which details our areas of focus for the next three years and is built around a vision that drives us to continue delivering upon our operational resilience and customer excellence while keeping an eye to the long-term to better understand and be prepared for the needs of our community in the future by focusing on digital transformation, designing an energy roadmap for YVR, becoming an intermodal hub and enabling and attracting talent.

Our 2025-2027 Environmental Sustainability Plan details the strategic priorities we will pursue over the next three years to address climate change, protect archaeological and cultural resources, and minimize the amount of waste we create. It also details the comprehensive environmental, noise and archeological programs overseen by the Airport Authority to ensure that we meet, or exceed, regulatory compliance, meet the needs our community, and protect our natural environment.

• Climate Change
• Protecting archeaological and cultural resources
• Minimizing waste

The 2025-2027 Environmental Strategy includes commitments that will be challenging to plan, launch and deliver. This plan is visionary, but we believe the targets are achievable with a concerted investment, coordination and changes in culture. Vancouver Airport Authority will support the plan and will monitor and report annually on progress against our goals and the lessons learned, while seeking regular feedback on how to do better.

Become part of the journey! Achieving environmental excellence in YVR’s diverse and complex setting requires collaboration and partnership and is achieved through the actions of all of us.

Accountability

There are inherent safety, security and environmental risks involved in operating an international airport. To effectively manage and mitigate these risks, YVR maintains robust policies, procedures and management systems aligned with our regulatory obligations. We also monitor, record and report on our environmental performance in many ways. We measure particulate matter in our air, record the content of YVR’s recycling and use the data to make sure we're hitting our sustainability goals. We are accountable through our community involvement, our Aeronautical Noise Management Committee and our Environmental Advisory Committee.

We report annually on our activities through our suite of Annual and Sustainability Reports which include our Annual Report, our Sustainability Report, and our Climate Change Resilient Report and can be found on our website at yvr.ca.