Airline advertisements grounded across Europe in latest climate protest Contact: Tona Merriman, brandalismproject@gmail.com, Tel: +44 7471593736 Full photo set available here Interviews at relevant hacked advertising sites available on request. 500 advertising sites...
Press Release: International Week of Action against Airline Advertising
Airline advertisements grounded across Europe in latest climate protest Contact: Tona Merriman, brandalismproject@gmail.com, Tel: +44 7471593736 Full photo set available here Interviews at relevant hacked advertising sites available on request. 500 advertising sites...
Austrian Airlines misleads consumers about CO₂-neutral flying, Austrian advertising watchdog rules
Austrian Airlines has been reprimanded by the Austrian Advertising Council for a misleading advertisement about “CO2-neutral” flying Rotterdam/Vienna - 29.08.2022 – This summer, Austrian Airlines launched an online advertisement promoting a “CO2-neutral” flight from...
Climate and Aviation Campaigners Protest as Government Launches Controversial Jet Zero Strategy at Farnborough Air Show Today
Protesters against aviation expansion held inflatable winged pigs outside the entrance to the air show and held a banner saying “Jet Zero? Pigs might fly!”, to highlight fundamental problems with the government’s approach to cutting aviation’s greenhouse gas (GHG)...
Back to the Future: Rallies for the return of the Paris-Hendaye night train and connections to the Iberian Peninsula
Rallies for the return of the Paris-Hendaye night train and a more extensive night train network between Europe and the Iberian Peninsula On July 2nd, 2022 — A night train renaissance is upon us with the Austrian Night Jet up and running and a Swedish night train to...
EU ETS Revision: Civil Society Calls on EU to Stop Ignoring Two-Thirds of Aviation’s Climate Impact
EU ETS Revision: Civil Society Calls on EU to Stop Ignoring Two-Thirds of Aviation's Climate Impact EU Parliament requested monitoring of non-CO2 effects in EU ETS Directive Aviation’s non-CO2 climate effects are twice as large as that of its CO2 alone - and need to...
Greenwashing of Biofuel Project by BSBIOS Paraguay/ECB rejected by civil society groups
Asunción/London/Utrecht/Vienna, April 6 2022 – A new case study by NGOs detailing the environmental and social harm that would cause the Omega Biofuel refinery being built in Paraguay by the Brazilian company ECB has garnered an inaccurate response from the company in...
Aviation Biofuels: Mega-Refinery Threatens Local Livelihoods and Ecosystems in Paraguay, New Case Study shows
Omega Green agrofuel (biofuel) refinery in Paraguay is one of largest agrofuel refineries in the world and the first one in South America Low demand for aviation agrofuels in Paraguay means that fuel will be produced for other people’s planes while local populations...
COP26 Aviation Deal Fails to Align Sector with Paris Agreement Goals
The International Aviation Climate Ambition Coalition (IACAC) is hugely disappointing and ineffective in reducing aviation emissions Instead of advancing effective measures such as taxes on aviation fuel and halting airport expansion, it reiterates ineffective...
COP26: Protest actions around the globe target aviation “greenwashing” and call for a reduction of air traffic
Protests in Mexico, Nepal, Germany, France, Ghana and the UK Day of Action against aviation greenwashing organised by the global network Stay Grounded as part of the COP26 Coalition Global Day of Action for Climate Justice Glasgow, 6th of November — As Britain drafts...
Action at UK airports targets “greenwashing” of aviation and calls for halting of expansion plans
Stay Grounded UK co-ordinates events at 10 airports. Part of global action days against greenwashing of air travel, organised by the international network Stay Grounded as part of the COP26 Coalition Global Action Days. At 11am on Saturday 6th November, protests will...
Aviation lobby using greenwashing to avoid emission cuts, warn climate organisations
Ahead of COP26 climate summit, global network Stay Grounded plus around 40 other organisations, including Friends of the Earth International, counter aviation’s greenwashing through a new petition and actions on 5-6th of November 5 new fact sheets explain flaws of...
No to Madrid and Barcelona airport expansions
(photo credits: @Christine Tyler / Stay Grounded) 120 organisations call on the government to cancel the expansions of Madrid and Barcelona airports The expansion of airport infrastructures and the growth of aviation are incompatible with climate commitments. The...
Kerosinsteuer für Flugverkehr: Vorschlag der EU-Kommission klimapolitisch ungenügend
Gemeinsame Pressemitteilung von ROBIN WOOD und Stay Grounded ++Kerosinsteuer für Flugverkehr: Vorschlag der EU-Kommission klimapolitisch ungenügend ++Klimaschutzplan der EU-Kommission zu lasch, um 1,5 Grad-Klimagrenze einzuhalten / Steuerprivilegien des Flugverkehrs...
EU Fit for 55 Aviation Rules: Too Many Loopholes and Too Slow
EU’s Proposed End of Kerosene Tax Exemption Welcomed, but Lacks Ambition Vienna/Brussels, July 14 2021 – Today, the EU Commission published its Fit for 55 climate package, which includes some changes for aviation. The Stay Grounded network welcomes the plan to end the...
Deutsche Luftfahrtkonferenz ignoriert Klimaabkommen
++ Klimaschädliche Wirkung des Flugverkehrs ist höher als veranschlagt ++ ROBIN WOOD und Netzwerk Stay Grounded fordern Reduktion des Flugverkehrs Berlin - 18.06.2021: Anlässlich der heutigen „Nationalen Luftfahrtkonferenz“ fordern ROBIN WOOD und das Netzwerk Stay...
New Research: Airport projects responsible for human rights violations and ecological destruction around the world
Interactive map documents 80 cases of airport-related injustices and resistance Barcelona/Vienna – 8th of April 2021: All across the globe airport projects are generating serious conflicts and social and environmental impacts: land acquisition, displacement of...
Release: Just Transition of Aviation Discussion Paper
London/Vienna - 8th of February 2021: Today, the UK trade union PCS and the global network Stay Grounded published together a paper entitled “A Rapid and Just Transition of Aviation - Shifting towards Climate-Just Mobility”. Tahir Latif, PCS Aviation Group President,...
Stay Grounded Condemns UK Supreme Court’s Go-ahead of Heathrow Expansion
UK Supreme Court ruled to overthrow decision to stop third runway // Stay Grounded condemns the Supreme Court’s decision // Airport expansion is incompatible with a climate-just future and the UK’s climate commitments London/Vienna, December 16 2020 – The UK Supreme...
33 organisations urge the EU to address the full climate impact of aviation now
New analysis for the European Commission underlines that aviation’s climate impact is far worse than widely claimed. Despite this, the European Commission is not proposing any meaningful action within the next few years Campaigners demand a sustained reduction of air...
New European Commission study adds to evidence on aviation’s total climate impact
New European Commission study makes clear that aviation is far worse than expected. Meanwhile, the aviation industry, having its annual IATA meeting today, demands additional $ 80 billion. Stay Grounded urges to account for real climate impact and stop giving more...