2025 was a year of turmoil and continuing crisis as we witnessed more extreme weather events, fascism gaining ground, and the continuing genocide in Gaza. In this moment, the Stay Grounded network decided to come together, take stock, and create strategies to resist...
On 13 September, groups in 12 countries raised their voices to say NO to night flights at airports. From their harmful effects on health to their destructive climate impacts, night flights are an unnecessary nuisance that falls hardest on already marginalised...
Over the course of four days, more than 230 people came together across three different continents and online to form new bonds, empower each other and build strategies for resistance in the face of escalating climate and social crises. These were more than just...
This year the Stay Grounded Network took on everything from frequent flying to the industry's growing obsession with so-called "SAF". This is a - by no means comprehensive - attempt to give an overview of the activities and achievements of our 207 member initiatives,...
2023 was a busy year, with lots of growth and momentum in the movement and within the Stay Grounded network. We saw our network grow - reaching 215 members! - and numerous inventive and impactful actions against private jets, aviation growth, and destructive tourism....
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...
We know that not all forms of energy use and emissions are created equal. We also know that some of both are unavoidable for human subsistence. Yet, there’s a current paradox around what counts as wasteful uses of energy and what doesn’t. How is it possible that...
Governments and corporations promote airports as a sign of progress and with promises of ‘development’. In reality, the construction of airports and associated infrastructure drives people off their land, destroys livelihoods, plunders water and fertile soil and...
On International Women’s Day, 8th March 2022, Stay Grounded and EnvJustice highlight the role of women in resisting injustices caused by airport projects around the world. Women's voices, minds and bodies have been some of the strongest when it comes to justice...
Looking back at 5 Years of Stay GroundedExactly five years ago, at the beginning of October 2016, ‘Stay Grounded’ was born. We organized simultaneous actions at airports around the world and in 2018, we went public as a network. A lot has happened since, and as we...
This was a difficult year for everyone. The pandemic that took us all by surprise and caused so much pain, also grounded most flights. We look back on a special, difficult year, but one that was also full of advances and successes for our network. After the...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Barcelona is the fourth most-visited European city, the first destination of Mediterranean cruise ships and the seventh largest European airport. While there were 3,7 million bookings in 1990, in 2016, Barcelona had more than 31 million bookings. Barcelona’s tourism...
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...
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...
- en español aquí - 12 - 14th of July 2019 in Barcelona Since green growth and carbon neutral flights are an illusion, it is time to start a degrowth process of aviation. How can this look like? What are possible policy instruments that civil society should fight for,...
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...
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 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...
