Written by Eric Lombard While the aviation sector and governments promise a new era of “sustainable” aviation fuels (SAF), we know that it will divert much-needed resources away from other sectors and take decades to happen, if at all. Yet there is an efficient way to...
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
UPDATE: ALL 102 CLIMATE ACTIVISTS WERE RELEASED, AFTER HAVING BEEN DETAINED FOR MORE THAN 24 HOURS. Geneva, 23.05.2023 – One hundred climate activists from 17 countries supporting Greenpeace, Stay Grounded, Extinction Rebellion, Scientist Rebellion and other climate...
A 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...
Webinar – Private Jets: How to Ban Them
For the past few months, the climate justice movement has put private jets on everyone’s radar, as obnoxious symbols of inequality and useless luxury emissions. Pressure has been growing to ban them: activists have been rallying up for bigger and bolder actions, from...