Aviation-Related Conflicts
All across the globe new airport projects are generating serious conflicts and impacts: land acquisition, displacement of people, destruction of ecosystems, local pollution and health issues.
Also the production of biofuels or offsetting projects, aviation industry’s promise of green flying, can create serious ecological and social harm.
Map of Airport-Related Injustice and Resistance
Case Study Biofuel Refinery
Research on Carbon Offsets
Concrete Airport Struggles
Webinars on Airport Conflicts
Map of Airport-Related Injustice and Resistance
An interactive feature map brings together case studies documenting a diversity of injustice related to airport projects.
It presents more than 100 cases as detailed examples of the conflicts generated by airport projects around the world. The research also identified more than 300 cases of airport projects where there is evidence of conflict, that merit further investigation.
Producing Fuel for Other People’s Planes
A case study on the Omega Green Biofuel refinery in Paraguay
Biofuels are a part of the aviation industry’s promise of green flying through technological ‘solutions’ and are therefore being massively promoted. This case study examines one specific planned production site, the Omega Green biorefinery project in Paraguay. It highlights the use of problematic monoculture crops, the cultivation of pongamia trees and its harmful relation Paraguay’s beef production and export industry.
Exaggerated Emission Savings and Legal Challenges: The Reality of Forest Carbon Offsets
Research commissioned by Stay Grounded reveals that international airlines have bought carbon credits from the Cordillera Azul National Park, Alto Mayo Conservation Initiative, Tambopata Brazil Nut Concessions and RMDLT Portel REDD projects in Peru and Brazil. All of which have been shown to have inflated their alleged emissions savings.
Airport struggles
We feature here topics concerning airport struggles in different regions of the world.
Cusco’s New Airport Threatens Incas’ Past and Our Collective Future
The prospect of an international airport in the Sacred Valley of the Incas in Peru has haunted the populations of Chinchero and Urumbamba for 40 years. With construction now underway, local initiatives and civil society organisations fear the destructive consequences...
Impacts of the new Cusco airport in Chinchero and the problems of air traffic
This webinar seeks to listen to different voices that are knowledgeable about the project and its impacts on watersheds, on the cultural and historical heritage of the Sacred Valley of the Incas, and on the communities of Chinchero and Urubamba. We aim at mobilizing...
Airport actions & campaigns – lessons learned on successful strategies and tactics
Despite climate crisis and global pandemic, airport expansion and construction projects are being planned or continued around the world. Those projects involve new land acquisition, the destruction of ecosystems, displacement of people - sometimes including human...
Airport Conflicts – Struggles for Environmental Justice
All across the globe airport projects involve new land acquisition, the destruction of ecosystems, displacement of people and local pollution and health issues. This webinar presented the results of 300 socio-environmental conflicts related to the expansion or creation of new airports or aerotropolis that were mapped in research in collaboration between Environmental Justice Atlas and Stay Grounded.