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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.
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?
Flying for Climate Change – culture jamming action
How anti-aviation activists in Germany faked the government of Hamburg and fooled the media to debunk the city’s myth of sustainability: A group of young anti-aviation activists in Germany came up with the idea to have a fictional government agency spell out the environmentally devastating truth of Hamburg’s aviation policy, usually sugarcoated in government documents.
Solidarity with the Stansted 15
The Stansted 15 are a group of anti-deportation protesters who blocked a UK government deportation flight at Stansted Airport last year to make the links clearer between climate change, colonialism, homophobia and the border regime. In a world of the IPCC’s current forecast of 3 degrees C plus, innocent climate breakdown refugees will face …
Veleiros no Tejo contra aeroporto no Montijo
Este domingo à tarde, juntámo-nos em Lisboa para uma ação surpresa em defesa do estuário do Tejo, contra o projeto do novo aeroporto previsto para o Montijo. Enquanto na cimeira do clima na Polónia os líderes mundiais continuam o “business as usual”, dois veleiros...
132 civil society organisations critizise CORSIA in open letter to ICAO Council
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...
Stay Grounded seeks reduced aviation through UNFCCC’s Talanoa Dialogue
Stay Grounded made a submission today, recommending policy to control aviation’s greenhouse gas emissions. This opportunity to participate follows the islanders’ cultural tradition called Talanoa, and UNFCCC calls it the Talanoa Dialogue. Here we explain how …
Global Network of Organizations Recommends Ways to Reverse Aviation Growth, to UNFCCC
Stay Grounded, a new global network of about 80 organisations working to curb the commercial aviation sector’s unrestrained expansion, today submitted recommendations to the United Nations’ climate change policy body. The submission is…
Stay Grounded Action Weeks: 27 actions, 11 countries, 3 continents
The past two weeks, the new global network Stay Grounded conducted Global Action Weeks, with 130 organizations demanding the reduction of air travel and 27 actions taking place in 11 countries. The action weeks ended yesterday with…