It is hard to put the many things that happened in our growing network in 2022 in a nutshell! But that being said, here comes our (surely incomplete) best attempt to give an overview over the activities and achievements of the past year. By our activities, we mean the...
Climate activists announce international protests as UN aviation agency adopts insufficient climate target
© Photocredit: Julien Helaine International network of climate activists announce upcoming uprisings at airports protesting the sector’s insufficient climate plans Countering the ICAO assembly, Stay Grounded’s AviAction conference ends tomorrow with an action against...
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...
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 –...
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...
