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.
London Heathrow Expansion: 3d Runway = Runaway Climate Breakdown
Even before the intended £18billion further expansion, Heathrow was the UK's biggest emitter of Greenhouse Gases at a time of Climate Breakdown emergency. Another runway would boost current flights of 480,000 to 740,000 seeing passengers rise to 132 million...
Arguments against extension of Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport
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. The French members of Stay Grounded made their opposition to this megaproject clear. Read their a submission to the public consultation organized by ADP.
European Parliament Elections Q&A – flying, trains and climate
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...
Ativistas interrompem primeiro-ministro de Portugal e exigem que diga a verdade sobre os impactos do aumento do tráfego aéreo
A Rebelião da Extinção invadiu o aniversário do partido do governo, no passado dia 22 de abril, para denunciar o acordo que o governo português assinou com a multinacional Vinci para um novo aeroporto no Montijo e expansão do aeroporto da Portela. As ativistas, que...
Flying Is and Will Be a Major Source of Our Global Warming Problems and Is Currently a Great Example for Climate Injustice – so Let‘s Put Our Energies Here Before it‘s Too Late!
A replik to Sasja Beslik by Anne Kretzschmar, campaigner of Stay Grounded On April 5th, an article on the Blog Usejournal appeared, suggesting that: Let‘s start this statement with the points I agree on with Sasja Beslik: Global warming is a systemic problem and it...
Illegal construction works associated with New Mexico City International Airport
CPOOME raises an urgent alert upon the illegal construction works associated with the New Mexico City International Airport. Workers, trucks and heavy machinery had entered the Ejidos of Nexquipayac on the Texcoco Lake shore without authorization and presentation of the project to the community on March 6th. After having faced resistance by farmers, the construction company was guarded by about a hundred strikers and armed men in the second attempt, threatening ejidatarios and …
Fly Less: Zomer Zonder Vliegen’s Statement to the Airline Industry
Peter Paul Vossepoel, campaigner of Zomer Zonder Vliegen (Summer Without Flying), unanticipatedly took the stage at the Airlines for Europe Summit 2019. He told Europe’s leading airline CEOs and global aviation leaders, that in the face of the climate crisis, less flying is the only solution.
EU-Wahl: Züge vs. Flüge – österreichische Parteien im Überblick
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...
Open Letter: Solidarity with Save Maldives
On Febuary 26, the Stay Grounded Network sent out an open letter to the President of the Maldives on behalf of its more than 100 global member organisations in solidarity with the Save Maldives citizen movement. It urges the recently elected President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih to stop the ongoing and planned destruction of ecosystems and livelihoods for airport infrastructure – making the archipelago even more vulnerable to the climate crisis.
Save the date: Stay Grounded Conference 12-14th of July 2019
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, in order to put an end to the massive privileges of the aviation industry, and to bring forward a socially just and environmentally friendly transport system?