News & Blog
In this section you find current information about the aviation industry and campaigns to counter aviation. You can see all articles of one category by clicking on the yellow button with the category’s name.
Airport Extractivist Model Tourism: Peoples’ Voices!
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
A Ferry-Tale & Railway Story
I didn’t think it was possible to get to the Canary Islands so quickly. The Canaries are basically next to West Sahara and 4.000 kilometres from the Stay Grounded office in Vienna, Austria. It only took us four and a half days to get there. Of course compared to a...
Women’s Role in Resisting Airport-Related Environmental Injustice
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...