Although the Covid crisis has drastically reduced air transport, the aviation industry intends to resume the massive growth planned for the sector. Since using electric aircraft at a big scale and for long distances is unrealistic and biofuels aren’t ecologically...
The Stay Grounded network invites groups to join the French mobilization for a reduction of air traffic and a just transition towards a climate-safe transport system. Airlines in the European Union alone have been guaranteed an...
It has become standard even for small NGOs or grassroots groups to run multiple social media channels like Facebook, Twitter or Instagram. But very often these are not used effectively, content is posted rather randomly and is not presented in a catchy way, or the...
All across the globe airport projects involve new land acquisition, the destruction of ecosystems, displacement of people, local pollution and health issues. More and more airports, especially in the Global South, are becoming ‘Aerotropolis’, or Airport Cities,...
During the past year we had many discussions in our network about our news campaigns and whether they are inclusive and diverse. Also in our last network meeting we agreed to strengthen the Global South perspectives in out network and bring in more diversity in terms...
With their measures against the Covid-19 crisis, governments must follow principles that ensure a just recovery. These principles must ensure that a future after Corona will be healthier and greener, more social, democratic and resilient. Together with hundreds of...
Stay Grounded sends open letter urging the Erasmus Student Network (ESN) to end partnership with low-cost carrier Ryanair and instead collaborate with rail companies. Version française voir ci-dessous Ryanair, along with Erasmus Student Network (ESN), has committed to...
Filipino fisherfolk fighting against Bulcan Aerotropolis and wider infrastructure development, which is destroying wetland in Manila Bay, have started a mobilization called 'Fishers Rise Up!' 20/02/2020: Bulakan, Bulacan - The Fishers Rise Up! initiative includes a...
After more than 15 years of absence, the night train connecting Brussels and Vienna returns. Twice a week, travelers can now travel in their sleep between the two capitals. It is only a modest start, but in both cities Stay Grounded members welcomed the new night...
Local authorities finally listen to affected farmers - After first success Stay Grounded Network sends follow-up letter to Prime Minister of India urging to stop Karad Airport expansion On September 19, the Stay Grounded Network had sent out an open letter to the...
Instead of fueling flights, the Global Sustainable Tourism Council should walk their talk and work towards sustainable tourism that rapidly reduces aviation, demands an open letter by the Stay Grounded Network. The Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC) hosts its...
South-West Essex Fight the Flights Action Report, London, October 11th: As part of the Extinction Rebellion (XR) London Shutdown Autumn Rebellion fortnight, before 9am yesterday morning a dozen or so activists arrived to attempt to shut down LCA and stay for 3 days....
Roissy/Paris, October 9: Protest took off against the project of Terminal 4 (T4) at Roissy Airport, Paris, France: Stay Grounded Member Non Au Terminal 4 interrupted a meeting on the project's public consultation organized by project developer ADP. The activists...
Systemic change – on political, economic and cultural levels – is necessary to avert a climate catastrophe, and should have started decades ago. In the past years, we have not only witnessed how slowly the political and economic system is able to adapt – but that in...
Stay Grounded Network sends open letter to Prime Minister of India urging to stop Karad Airport expansion – and expressing solidarity with affected farmers On September 19, the Stay Grounded Network sent out an open letter to the Prime Minister of India and...
Karad, Maharashtra, India, September 4th, 2019: For 36 days, small-scale farmers have been protesting days and nights with a sit-in in front of the district's planning administration (Satara Collector Office) against the expansion of Karad Airport in Maharashtra...
Contact: Andrea Söderblom-Tay (Flyglarm Arlanda) +46(0)73939702 https://flyglarmarlanda.se/ Mira Kapfinger (Stay Grounded) +43(0)6801451307 press@ud12-36.ud12.udmedia.de Stockholm, August 13: On the 11th of August a group of climate activists disrupted the...
Flying or a future? (Framtiden eller Flyget?) Stockholm, 30.07.19: Stay Grounded members Flyglarm Arlanda plan an action on the 11th of August, targeting a secret location around Arlanda airport in Stockholm, Sweden. With the help of peaceful civil disobedience, they...
Penguins claim responsibility for "Berlin's most effective climate protection measure" You believe that delays of more than seven years in the opening of Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER) is a pitiful failure of politics, authorities, and construction companies? On...
Contacts: Sara Mingorria (EnvJustice, ICTA-UAB) Email: sara.mingorria@gmail.com Phone: +34676335412 Rose Bridger, Stay Grounded (Stay Grounded) Email: mapping@ud12-36.ud12.udmedia.de Phone: +44 7779 137522 Barcelona/London, 23 July: The EnvJustice project of the...
Stay Grounded, an international network of more than 120 organisations working to curb the aviation sector’s unrestrained expansion, sharply criticizes the celebration of aviation growth and the presentation of supersonic start-up Boom at the Paris Air Show. Paris,...
Communiqué du réseau STAY GROUNDED Du 17 au 23 juin se tiendra au Bourget le 53ème Salon International de l’Aéronautique et de l’Espace, près de quatre ans après la signature en ces lieux de l’Accord de Paris, par lequel 195 pays s’engageaient à réduire drastiquement...
Aéroports de Paris (ADP), owner of Charles de Gaulle airport (CDG), plans to build a new terminal (T4) that would add 40 Millions passengers per year by 2037 to the present 70 millions per year. This would lead to an additional 440 additional flights per day (and...
Back on Track and Stay Grounded work for better cross‐border rail connections instead of an ongoing growth of flights. To inform the voters at the coming European Parliament election in May 2019, we have asked the same questions to all parties across Europe about...
This complaint was is filed by CPOOEM on March 23, 2019 and originally posted on the website of the Mexican National Indigenous Congress (CNI) ---Spanish version below--- ALERT! URGENT COMPLAINT TO THE NATIONAL INDIGENOUS CONGRESS (CNI) TO THE INDIGENOUS COUNCIL OF...
See the original post on the webpage of our member Zomer Zonder Vliegen Brussels: March 6th, 2019: Peter Paul Vossepoel, campaigner of Zomer Zonder Vliegen (Summer Without Flying), an awareness raising campaign on the climate impact of avation, unanticipatedly took...
Das europäische Netzwerk Back on Track und das internationale Netzwerk Stay Grounded setzen sich für bessere grenzüberschreitende Bahnverbindungen anstelle einer weiteren Zunahme des Flugverkehrs ein. Angesichts der bevorstehenden Europawahl wurden im Februar 2019...
Stay Grounded Network sends open letter to Maldivian President urging to stop new airport infrastructure projects - making the archipelago even more vulnerable to the climate crisis. On Febuary 26, the Stay Grounded Network sent out an open letter to the President of...
How anti-aviation activists in Germany faked the government of Hamburg and fooled the media to debunk the city’s myth of sustainability “Flying for Climate Change “ was the motto of the campaign of the fictional Environment and Transportation Office of The City of...
Update: February 2019: No immediate prison sentences The Stansted 15 are a group of anti-deportation protesters who blocked a UK government deportation flight at Stansted Airport last year to make the links clearer between climate change, colonialism,...
Today, 132 civil society organisations from around the world sent an open letter to National Representations to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). The letter comes just ahead of the 215th session of the ICAO Council to be held from 29th of October...
Through the efforts of Pacific islanders who are national delegates, the UN's Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has invited the global public to provide new ideas for international policy to tame climate change. Some of the submissions may become part of...
A big step in taming climate change is the objective Contact: Mira Kapfinger, coordinator of Stay Grounded Mail: info@ud12-36.ud12.udmedia.de Phone: 0043/6801451307 Photos for free use: https://www.flickr.com/gp/164860673@N04/EfNB56 October 23rd, 2018 - Stay...
130 organisations demand reduction of air travel – 27 actions around the world 27 actions conducted around the world to protest aviation expansion „Trains, not planes“: Stay Grounded Network meeting concludes action weeks 130 organisations have signed a position paper...
Protest against Greenwashing of aviation Yesterday, October 3rd, two activists from Stay Grounded intervened in the opening of the European Aviation Summit in Vienna, discrediting the speach by EU Transport commissioner Violeta Bulc about the supposedly green future...
1st-12th October - 2 weeks of protest events to be held around the world Contact: Magdalena Heuwieser & Mira Kapfinger / coordinators of Stay Grounded Mail: info@ud12-36.ud12.udmedia.de Phone: 0043/6503773102 1st October 2018 - This week marks the official launch...
Contact: Fernando Hicap, PAMALAKAYA National Chairperson – 0921-897-0239 09/30/2018: Bulakan, Bulacan – Calling it as one of the biggest environmental disasters to hit Manila Bay, the activist fisherfolk group Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng...
In October 2018, the Stay Grounded Network meeting as well as the Back on Track network meeting, took place together in Vienna and started with a public panel discussion. Representatives of a British trade union, of the civil society networks Stay Grounded and Back on...
The aviation industry has announced its intention to become greener in the future. This report examines the different climate strategies. Do they deliver on their promises? Is carbon-neutral growth a realistic goal? The report “The Illusion of Green Flying” was...
A new climate agreement intended to ensure “carbon-neutral growth” in international aviation could lead to a massive increase in demand for problematic offsetting projects. Offsetting schemes for airports are a further measure to provide “green” legitimacy to the...
The position paper "Stay Grounded - 13 steps for a just transport system and for rapidly reducing aviation" is ready. Find the position paper here. The paper has evolved in a almost year-long democratic consensus-based process. At several network meetings, we...
