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The LYBRA Environmental Committee

Environmental yacht operation made to measure

The superyacht industry is under growing pressure to show, not just claim, its environmental progress. Regulators, owners and charterers increasingly expect credible data behind sustainability commitments, not general statements. A shared, industry-wide dataset gives yacht management companies a way to meet that expectation together, rather than each company trying to build the evidence alone.

The LYBRA Environmental Committee is a joint initiative of Water Revolution Foundation and LYBRA (The Leading Yacht Brokers Association). It brings together LYBRA member companies to build a shared, reliable evidence base for sustainability in the superyacht industry. Membership of the Committee is open exclusively to LYBRA members.

Who is LYBRA?

The Leading Yacht Brokers Association, is an internationally renowned trade association for leading superyacht brokerage companies to set new universal quality standards.

Goals & Deliverables
A shared sustainability database

Collect and consolidate sustainability data across the fleet, with particular focus on charter-day information and operational data such as engine and generator hours.

Alignment with regulation

Monitor developments from the IMO, SYBAss and ISO, and keep the LYBRA data project aligned with emerging sustainability and reporting requirements.

A growing data pool

Engage additional yacht management companies and expand the network of participating companies, to broaden participation and strengthen the dataset.

Your data is protected under a binding NDA and fully anonymised before use. 

Companies steering the course
Frequently asked questions

Yes. The Committee is only open to LYBRA members, the Leading Yacht Brokers Association. If your company isn’t a LYBRA member yet, contact LYBRA first to ask about joining.

Only anonymised and aggregated. A binding NDA protects your data, and it’s anonymised before it goes into any shared dataset or report. No other member, LYBRA, or outside party can trace figures back to your company.

Most companies report separately, using their own methods and metrics. That makes it hard to compare across the industry or prove anything to regulators, owners or charterers. The Committee pools data from across the LYBRA fleet into one consistent dataset. It’s stronger evidence than any single company can produce alone, and members don’t have to build the same reporting systems from scratch.

Roadmap 2050 is Water Revolution Foundation’s plan for yachting to hit net-zero emissions by 2050, with targets across design, build, operation and refit. LYBRA and Water Revolution Foundation lined up the Committee’s work with the operational targets in that Roadmap. So the data the Committee collects feeds straight into the industry’s progress on those targets.

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