PRESS CONTACT: Hannah Lawrence, press@stay-grounded.org , (+43) 0670 550 09 34 A week of protest across Europe is taking aim at airline advertising and sponsorships over their role in increasing demand for flying. New statistics for 6 major airlines show that every €1...
Protests across Europe demand ban on airline advertising
PRESS CONTACT: Hannah Lawrence, press@stay-grounded.org , (+43) 0670 550 09 34 A week of protest across Europe is taking aim at airline advertising and sponsorships over their role in increasing demand for flying. New statistics for 6 major airlines show that every €1...
Court prohibits Eurowings greenwashing adverts
German airline, Eurowings, has been prohibited from advertising flights as “CO2 neutral” through carbon offsetting, by Cologne Regional Court Eurowings had misled customers with its greenwashing claims, the court ruled Forest offsetting projects are unsuitable for...
Two court victories on Schiphol airport and KLM airline!
Press Release on March 20th 2024 - Today, a historic verdict ruled that Schiphol Amsterdam airport has to reduce its flights to a maximum of 400,000 a year. Yesterday, another court ruled that the Dutch airline KLM has misled customers with its green claims. These...
Upcoming actions demand flight caps for Europe’s 5 largest airports
25 organisations are calling on the EU and governments across Europe to cap air traffic The coalition of groups have published a tribune ahead of two days of action in France and other European countries The organisations are local residents groups and climate...
New research showing the significant health issues of air traffic
NEW research shows just 20 airports produced the equivalent CO2 emissions of 58 coal plants Launched today, the 2024 ‘Airport Tracker’ – an update to the first global inventory of CO2 and local air pollutants from passenger and freight flights – shows the scale of...
Schiphol Airport’s new report demands a reduction of aviation
January 25th - Yesterday, Schiphol airport published new research, showing the need for a strong reduction of air traffic in order to halt climate heating. The airport proposes the ‘Polluter pays’ principle, with measures such as a worldwide kerosene tax and a tax for...
Mass civil disobedience at Belgium airports and protests against destructive mega projects in Mexico highlighting aviation as the pinnacle of climate injustice
Activists from across Europe took action at Liège Airport Hundreds of activists have been arrested in Antwerp after being targeted by police In Mexico, several actions are taking place against the new Tulum International Airport 16th December 2023: Today, supporters...
100% so-called “SAF” flights called out for being distracting marketing gimmicks
For more information, contact Hannah Lawrence at Stay Grounded, (+43) 0670 550 09 34, press@stay-grounded.org Tomorrow’s first transatlantic flight on 100% so-called “Sustainable Aviation Fuel” is not net zero It comes alongside airlines' greenwashing of flights at...
Over 75 organisations urge policymakers to ban private jets
For more information, contact Sean Currie at Stay Grounded, +447961485850, press@stay-grounded.org On Monday 2nd October, over 75 organisations issued an open letter calling on national and European policymakers to ban private jets and tax frequent flying. As the...
Press release: Activists demand Paris Air Show ends its climate denial
For further information, contact Inês at Stay Grounded, +43 670 353 43 11, press@stay-grounded.org On the first day of the 54th edition of the Paris Air Show, French groups issued a statement calling on the event to stop their climate denial and take the necessary...
EU Transport Council’s decision on private jets
Another missed opportunity to tackle luxury emissions 2nd of June, 2023 – Stay Grounded, a global network of more than 200 members organisations, has responded to the decision made by EU Transport Commissioner Adina Vălean to rule out a ban on private jets yesterday....
Hundred climate activists in custody in Geneva after peaceful protest against largest private aviation industry sales event in Europe
One hundred climate activists from 17 countries supporting Greenpeace, Stay Grounded, Extinction Rebellion, Scientist Rebellion and other climate justice groups are being temporarily detained after a peaceful protest against Europe’s largest private jet fair, the annual European Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition (EBACE) in Geneva. They remain in police custody. Activists report the use of pepper spray and injuries after the police intervention. Greenpeace, Stay Grounded, Extinction Rebellion and Scientist Rebellion, which are supported by activists, are extremely concerned about these reports of excessive use of force against the peaceful protesters and demand the immediate release of all those involved.
One hundred climate activists block private jets at biggest sales event in Europe, protesting luxury mega-polluters
Geneva, 23.05.2023 – A hundred climate activists supporting Greenpeace, Stay Grounded, Extinction Rebellion, Scientist Rebellion and other climate justice groups from 17 countries have disrupted Europe’s biggest sales fair of private jets, the annual European...
EU’s New Law on ‘Sustainable Aviation Fuels’ Fails to Be Truly Sustainable
The new ReFuelEU law, part of the EU Fit for 55 package, was announced yesterday The Stay Grounded network fears this could lead to a massive demand for biomass and energy, competing with other sectors and leading to carbon colonialism The focus on 'Sustainable...
20+ Actions against Private Jets
Love in Action: Climate Activists and Scientists Target Private Jets on Valentine's Day Today, several blockades of private jet terminals took place around the globe. Protestors call for a ban on private jets, the taxation of frequent flyers and that polluters pay for...
Ryanair used misleading sustainability claims, says ACM NL
Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets requested Ryanair to change potentially false claims on sustainable flying, related to offsetting Important step in countering the aviation industry’s greenwashing attempts Vienna/Amsterdam, 25 January 2023 – After...
Climate activists announce international protests as UN aviation agency adopts insufficient climate target
© Photocredit: Julien Helaine International network of climate activists announce upcoming uprisings at airports protesting the sector’s insufficient climate plans Countering the ICAO assembly, Stay Grounded’s AviAction conference ends tomorrow with an action against...
Stay Grounded starting its action conference as UN aviation agency meets in Montreal
Activists from all over Europe and beyond are meeting in Lille, France. Actions to tackle air traffic are planned - the first on 8 October. Lille/Vienna/Montreal, 27 September 2022 – Starting today, the UN body for civil aviation is meeting in Montreal, Canada,...
Press Release: International Week of Action against Airline Advertising
Airline advertisements grounded across Europe in latest climate protest Contact: Tona Merriman, brandalismproject@gmail.com, Tel: +44 7471593736 Full photo set available here Interviews at relevant hacked advertising sites available on request. 500 advertising sites...
Austrian Airlines misleads consumers about CO₂-neutral flying, Austrian advertising watchdog rules
Austrian Airlines has been reprimanded by the Austrian Advertising Council for a misleading advertisement about “CO2-neutral” flying Rotterdam/Vienna - 29.08.2022 – This summer, Austrian Airlines launched an online advertisement promoting a “CO2-neutral” flight from...
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...
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...
COP26 Aviation Deal Fails to Align Sector with Paris Agreement Goals
The International Aviation Climate Ambition Coalition (IACAC) is hugely disappointing and ineffective in reducing aviation emissions Instead of advancing effective measures such as taxes on aviation fuel and halting airport expansion, it reiterates ineffective...
COP26: Protest actions around the globe target aviation “greenwashing” and call for a reduction of air traffic
Protests in Mexico, Nepal, Germany, France, Ghana and the UK Day of Action against aviation greenwashing organised by the global network Stay Grounded as part of the COP26 Coalition Global Day of Action for Climate Justice Glasgow, 6th of November — As Britain drafts...
Action at UK airports targets “greenwashing” of aviation and calls for halting of expansion plans
Stay Grounded UK co-ordinates events at 10 airports. Part of global action days against greenwashing of air travel, organised by the international network Stay Grounded as part of the COP26 Coalition Global Action Days. At 11am on Saturday 6th November, protests will...
Aviation lobby using greenwashing to avoid emission cuts, warn climate organisations
Ahead of COP26 climate summit, global network Stay Grounded plus around 40 other organisations, including Friends of the Earth International, counter aviation’s greenwashing through a new petition and actions on 5-6th of November 5 new fact sheets explain flaws of...
No to Madrid and Barcelona airport expansions
(photo credits: @Christine Tyler / Stay Grounded) 120 organisations call on the government to cancel the expansions of Madrid and Barcelona airports The expansion of airport infrastructures and the growth of aviation are incompatible with climate commitments. The...
Kerosinsteuer für Flugverkehr: Vorschlag der EU-Kommission klimapolitisch ungenügend
Fit for 55 Klimaschutzplan der EU nicht ausreichend für den Flugverkehr. Geplante Einführung einer Kerosinsteuer ist sinnvoll, es gibt jedoch zu viele Ausnahmen.
EU Fit for 55 Aviation Rules: Too Many Loopholes and Too Slow
EU’s Proposed End of Kerosene Tax Exemption Welcomed, but Lacks Ambition Vienna/Brussels, July 14 2021 – Today, the EU Commission published its Fit for 55 climate package, which includes some changes for aviation. The Stay Grounded network welcomes the plan to end the...
Deutsche Luftfahrtkonferenz ignoriert Klimaabkommen
++ Klimaschädliche Wirkung des Flugverkehrs ist höher als veranschlagt ++ ROBIN WOOD und Netzwerk Stay Grounded fordern Reduktion des Flugverkehrs Berlin - 18.06.2021: Anlässlich der heutigen „Nationalen Luftfahrtkonferenz“ fordern ROBIN WOOD und das Netzwerk Stay...
New Research: Airport projects responsible for human rights violations and ecological destruction around the world
Interactive map documents 80 cases of airport-related injustices and resistance Barcelona/Vienna – 8th of April 2021: All across the globe airport projects are generating serious conflicts and social and environmental impacts: land acquisition, displacement of...
Release: Just Transition of Aviation Discussion Paper
London/Vienna - 8th of February 2021: Today, the UK trade union PCS and the global network Stay Grounded published together a paper entitled “A Rapid and Just Transition of Aviation - Shifting towards Climate-Just Mobility”. Tahir Latif, PCS Aviation Group President,...
Stay Grounded Condemns UK Supreme Court’s Go-ahead of Heathrow Expansion
UK Supreme Court ruled to overthrow decision to stop third runway // Stay Grounded condemns the Supreme Court’s decision // Airport expansion is incompatible with a climate-just future and the UK’s climate commitments London/Vienna, December 16 2020 – The UK Supreme...
33 organisations urge the EU to address the full climate impact of aviation now
New analysis for the European Commission underlines that aviation’s climate impact is far worse than widely claimed. Despite this, the European Commission is not proposing any meaningful action within the next few years Campaigners demand a sustained reduction of air...
New European Commission study adds to evidence on aviation’s total climate impact
New European Commission study makes clear that aviation is far worse than expected. Meanwhile, the aviation industry, having its annual IATA meeting today, demands additional $ 80 billion. Stay Grounded urges to account for real climate impact and stop giving more...
Hundreds of Penguin Climate Activists Block Berlin Airport BER Opening
Blockade of the Opening of BER Airport in Germany on 31st October Berlin, 31.10.2020 - The climate justice group 'Am Boden bleiben', a member of the international Stay Grounded network, today blocks the opening of the new airport in Berlin with protest actions. The...
Greenwashing: Advertising Code Committee Ruled Against Airline KLM
Claims for high use of biofuels debunked as misleading // More rulings could follow on the aviation industry’s greenwashing Vienna/Amsterdam, June 30th 2020: KLM just recently lost the case against Eric Stam, revealing the practice of the Dutch Airline of greenwashing...
CORSIA Baseline Change: Aviation’s Climate Regulation Is Broken Beyond Repair
Today, the Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) unilaterally decided to change the baseline for the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA) to 2019, further watering down an already extremely weak system....
AUA-Rettung: Bruchlandung für das Klima
Wien, 8. Juni – Die Klimagerechtigkeits-Organisationen Stay Grounded und System Change, not Climate Change kritisieren die heute beschlossene Einigung auf Staatshilfen für die Austrian Airlines. Aus Sicht der Klima-Aktivist*innen sind die vorgestellten Klima-Maßnahmen...
9 billion bailout to Lufthansa
Find here the German press release of our member "Am Boden bleiben", critizicing the decision taken today on a 9 billion Euro bailout for the German airline Lufthansa, granted without any social or environmental conditions. The German activist group "Am Boden bleiben"...
Aktion gegen Rettungspaket für Lufthansa
Ergebnisse heutiger Online-Pressekonferenz und Aktion zur Übergabe von Petition ans BMWi // 338 Organisationen und über 70.000 Menschen fordern in Kampagne #SavePeopleNotPlanes soziale und ökologische Konditionen für Rettung der Flugindustrie Berlin - 30. April 2020:...
AUA-Staatshilfen: Zehn Maßnahmen für klimagerechten Umbau
Das Netzwerk Stay Grounded warnt angesichts der fortschreitenden Verhandlungen mit den Austrian Airlines vor bedingungslosen Staatshilfen für die Flugindustrie und präsentiert zehn Vorschläge für konkrete Maßnahmen, um den Flugverkehr angesichts der Coronakrise...
AUA-Staatshilfen: Keine Millionengeschenke auf Kosten des Klimas
Das Netzwerk Stay Grounded fordert Rettungspakete für die Flugindustrie an klare sozial-ökologische Kriterien und Klimapläne im Einklang mit dem 1,5°C-Limit zu koppeln. Ein entsprechender offener Brief an die Bundesregierung wird von 30 österreichischen Organisationen...
250 Organisations Demand Red Lines for Aviation Bailouts
#SavePeopleNotPlanes: Open letter demands that workers and the climate are put first 6th of April 2020 - Today, more than 250 organisations from 25 countries published an open letter directed to governments, urging them to resist any aviation lobby attempts to rush...
Airline bailouts: Save people, not planes
++ Version française ++ Today’s meeting of EU transport ministers must not provide unconditional bailouts for airlines. Stay Grounded Network demands funding for just transition and climate jobs. Vienna, 18th of March 2020: Today, an extraordinary meeting by EU...
Heathrow Third Runway Ruling: Milestone and Hope for other Struggles
The Stay Grounded Network is celebrating today's decision by the UK court of appeal to declare the construction of the planned third runway at Heathrow Airport illegal because the UK’s climate mitigation commitments and the Paris Agreement. The construction of the...
Filipino fishers join global climate strike
Filipino fisherfolk fighting against Bulcan Aerotropolis and wider infrastructure development, which is destroying wetland in Manila Bay, have started a mobilization called 'Fishers Rise Up!' 20/02/2020: Bulakan, Bulacan - The Fishers Rise Up! initiative includes a...
New Study: Measures to reduce air travel in a just way
Stay Grounded Network releases report “Degrowth of Aviation - Reducing Air Travel in a Just Way” December 3, 2019 - On the occasion of the climate summit COP 25, the Stay Grounded network publishes a new report on “Degrowth of Aviation”. It combines a multitude of...
Protests against International Aviation Emissions Strategy
Planned protests in Montreal at International Aviation Assembly (24th of September to 4th of October) // New briefing exposes prposed palm oil in airplane tank & aviation emissions scheme (CORSIA) as set to fail to reduce aviation emissions Contact: Magdalena...
Activists block fuel train to challenge airport expansion in Sweden
On the 11th of August a group of climate activists disrupted the delivery of aviation fuel to Arlanda airport outside Stockholm, Sweden by blocking 14 tank cars of fossil fuels from entering the station. Activists of the local campaign Flyglarm Arlanda peacefully trespassed into the fuel station, to challenge the expansion of the airport.
More than 300 aviation-related conflicts and environmental justice movements around the world mapped in research project
The EnvJustice project of the Environmental Science and Technology Institute at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Autonomous University of Barcelona) ICTA-UAB and the Stay Grounded network have registered more than 300 socio-environmental conflicts related to the expansion or creation of new airports or aerotropolis (airports surrounded by industrial and commercial zones). 60 of these have been analyzed and…
Aviation: Resistance sparks today in Barcelona – Climate solutions presented at Conference
“Degrowth of Aviation” Conference ends today – Action at Barcelona Airport draws red line for aviation and mass tourism Barcelona, 14th of July 2019 – This morning, dozens of activists in red suits formed a red line inside the Barcelona’s El Prat Airport in...
Presenting superpolluting planes, the Paris Airshow disregards climate emergency
Paris, June 18, 2018 – Stay Grounded, an international network of more than 120 organisations working to curb the aviation sector’s unrestrained expansion, sharply criticizes the celebration of aviation growth and the presentation of supersonic start-up Boom at the Paris Air Show.
Planned Conference “Degrowth of Aviation” & Further activities of the Stay Grounded Network
Conference on how to reduce aviation on 12-14th of July in Barcelona // Action against mass tourism in Barcelona on 14th of July // European Civil Initiative to end kerosene tax exemption Vienna/Barcelona, June 12th - In one month, on the 12th of July, the conference...
SALON DU BOURGET: FACE A L’URGENCE CLIMATIQUE, GARDONS LES PIEDS SUR TERRE !
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 leurs émissions de gaz à effet de serre. Exonérée de cet engagement mondial, l’industrie du transport aérien prospère, et sa contribution à l’effet de serre explose.
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…
Press Release: Stay Grounded international network launched to counter aviation
This week marks the official launch of Stay Grounded, a global network of organisations and activist groups working to curb the unrestrained expansion of the aviation sector that is causing ever increasing damage to the climate and local residents. Supported by more than 100 civil society organisations, …
Press Release: ‘Bulacan Aerotropolis’ threatens marine ecology, food security – fisherfolk
Calling it as one of the biggest environmental disasters to hit Manila Bay, the activist fisherfolk group PAMALAKAYA-Pilipinas said the Bulacan Aerotropolis Project will kill both the marine ecosystem and the lives of thousands of fisherfolk who subsist by fishing in the waters of Manila Bay. The project will be constructed at the 2,500-hectare waters of Manila Bay in …