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Nos unimos para ir más allá de la aviación, el turismo y el capitalismo
Durante cuatro días, más de 150 personas se reunieron en tres continentes y en línea para forjar nuevos vínculos, empoderarse mutuamente y desarrollar estrategias de resistencia ante la creciente crisis climática y social. Fueron más que simples reuniones; fueron la...
La lucha por el aeropuerto de Barcelona: décadas construyendo alianzas amplias
El conflicto en torno al aeropuerto de El Prat y la destrucción del Delta del Llobregat, tras décadas de denuncia, es una de las luchas por la justicia ambiental más importantes de Europa. El conflicto entró en una nueva etapa en junio de 2025, debido a los planes de expansión del aeropuerto.
Oponiéndose al capitalismo del desastre: lecciones del aeropuerto de Barbuda
La comunidad de Barbuda han estado luchando contra lel proyecto de construcción de un aeropuerto internacional, que serviría como puerta de entrada a un desarrollo aún más grande, que comenzó justo cuando estaban lidiando con el impacto del huracán Irma. Este...
Declaración final de Anti-COP 2024
Permanecer en la Tierra, la red regional de América Latina y el Caribe de Stay Grounded, asistió al Encuentro Global por el Clima y la Vida - Anti-COP 2024 que tuvo lugar en el estado mexicano de Oaxaca. Representada por nuestra organización miembro CPOOEM...
El Petróleo Mata: Levantamiento Global Detener los Vuelos, Exige el Fin de los Combustibles Fósiles
Durante varias semanas, activistas de Europa, América del Norte y África emprendieron acciones audaces bajo el lema "El Petróleo Mata", apuntando a los aeropuertos y exigiendo un tratado para eliminar gradualmente los combustibles fósiles para 2030. Estas acciones...
Groups denounce London City Airport Expansion, in Fourth Day of Protests Targeting Airports
Airport protests are taking place in at least six countries today: the UK, Switzerland, Austria, the Netherlands, Canada, and the USA. The protests come at the end of a week of civil disobedience during which Oil Kills disrupted airports in 10 countries across Europe...
Contribución de Permanecer en la Tierra al XI Foro Social Panamazónico
En los próximos días, del 12 al 15 de junio de 2024, tendrá lugar el Foro Social Panamazónico (FOSPA) en Rurrenabaque y San Buenaventura en Bolivia. Permanecer en la Tierra se suma a los trabajos del FOSPA, solidarizándose con la lucha de los pueblos amazónicos y...
La Semana de Acción Internacional contra los jets privados alcanza su punto álgido con el bloqueo del aeropuerto de Farnborough
Esta mañana, lxs manifestantes bloquearon el acceso al aeropuerto de Farnborough, la terminal de jets privados más grande del Reino Unido. Esto es parte de la Semana de Acción Internacional, con protestas en ocho países que exigen que los gobiernos prohíban los jets...
La Semana de Acción Internacional para la Prohibición de Jets Privados alcanza su punto álgido con el bloqueo del aeropuerto de Farnborough
Esta mañana, lxs manifestantes bloquearon el acceso al aeropuerto de Farnborough, la terminal de jets privados más grande del Reino Unido. Esto es parte de la Semana de Acción Internacional, con protestas en ocho países que exigen que los gobiernos prohíban los jets...
Historias de resistencia frente al Modelo Extractivista Aeroportuario
"En México, el gobierno federal actual ha puesto en manos del ejército y la marina la construcción, operación y beneficio económico de los aeropuertos, una línea aérea, hoteles y algunos destinos turísticos y al sur de la Cuenca del Valle de México asociamos el...
Jornadas de Reflexión para Permanecer en la Tierra
Un espacio de diálogo, análisis y construcción de alternativas ante los impactos de la industria del transporte aéreo, organizado por la red regional de Latinoamérica y el Caribe de Stay Grounded - "Permanecer en la Tierra". Quintana Roo, México. Inició la Jornada de...
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...
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...
El nuevo informe del aeropuerto de Schiphol exige una reducción de la aviación
25 de enero - Ayer, el aeropuerto de Schiphol publicó una nueva investigación que muestra la necesidad de una fuerte reducción del tráfico aéreo para detener el calentamiento climático. El aeropuerto propone el principio de "quien contamina paga", con medidas como un...
Stay Grounded in review: 2023 – A year of sustained momentum
2023 was a busy year, with lots of growth and momentum in the movement and within the Stay Grounded network. We saw our network grow - reaching 215 members! - and numerous inventive and impactful actions against private jets, aviation growth, and destructive tourism....
People’s struggle against the proposed international airport in Nepal
Blog post by Bhola Bhattarai (NAFAN - National Forum For Advocacy Nepal) Tangiya Basti is the proposed site for the Nijgadh International Airport. But people living in Tangiya are being kept in the dark about this project. More than two thousand households, especially...
New chapter in conflict with industry that wants to ‘plant’ jet fuel in the Amazon
Members of the Tembé nation were shot in Tomé-Açu on Monday August 7th 2023. Indigenous communities and quilombolas demand recognition of traditional territories in a dispute with the Brazil Biofuels group (BBF), a producer of palm oil that wants to sell biofuels to...
Jets & Yachts The Party’s Over: Activists glue themselves to a private jet in Ibiza
In July activists in Ibiza carried out a week-long series of actions against luxury emissions and the 1% who cause them. "We are glued to a private jet at Ibiza airport because we are really terrified of the consequences of the climate crisis". This is what Bilbo, an...
Destination FOMO: Understanding the Urge to Fly to Faraway Places
During the scorching summer of 2023, we have simultaneously experienced the hottest day on record and the busiest day for air travel in years. So what drives us to traverse continents and skies? Is it our innate human curiosity to explore the unknown, to connect with...
El combustible fósil para aviación puede mejorarse a bajo costo para reducir el calentamiento climático producido por las estelas y mejorar la calidad del aire
Escrito por Eric Lombard Mientras el sector de la aviación y los gobiernos prometen una nueva era de combustibles de aviación “sostenibles” (SAF - “sustainable” aviation fuels), sabemos que, en cualquier caso, esto desviará recursos muy necesarios de otros sectores y...
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...
Reimaginar el turismo en un futuro con menos tráfico aéreo: Resumen del seminario web
¿Cumple el turismo impulsado por la aviación su promesa de proporcionar prosperidad tanto a las personas como al planeta? ¿Cómo han llegado a depender la aviación y el turismo el uno del otro? ¿Qué oportunidades tiene por delante el sector turístico si se da una...
A Worker-Led Approach – Shaping the Future of Aviation: Summary of Webinar
In a world of climate crisis, it is essential to include workers’ voices in the necessary just transition of our society. Just recently, the European Transport Workers’ Federation published the report “Landing Desirable Jobs” arguing strongly for a long-term...
¡Victoria! El aeropuerto de Schiphol cerrará de noche.
Publicado originalmente en neerlandés por nuestre miembre SchipholWatch, el 3 de abril de 2023. La batalla de años y años contra las molestias provocadas por Schiphol empieza a dar sus frutos. El aeropuerto de Schiphol cerrará por la noche. Esto es lo que Ruud Sondag,...
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 block private jet airport used by WEF guests
The access to the private jet airport in Altenrhein Switzerland was blocked by Debt for Climate activists, preventing the transfer of attendees arriving in Davos for the World Economic Forum. Their demands: cancellation of all foreign debt of countries in the Global...
¡Estamos con los defensores del Agua y la Vida! Solidaridad contra la represión en San Gregorio Atlapulco, Xochimilco, México
Comunicado de indignación y condena a la represión en San Gregorio Atlapulco, Xochimilco.
AviAction: A stopover in Lille, towards the degrowth of aviation
Over 200 people met in October in Lille, northern France, for the second international conference of the Stay Grounded network. Faced with the climate crisis and the aviation industry’s ecocidal plans, they imagined joint actions to stop the expansion of airports,...
Aeropuertos en México: allanando el camino para el turismo extractivista y los megaproyectos
Aeropuertos en México: allanando el camino para el turismo extractivista y los megaproyectos El nuevo informe "Aeropuertos y conflictos en México" de Gustavo Castro (Otros Mundos Chiapas, AC)/Stay Grounded-Permanecer en la Tierra ofrece un análisis exhaustivo del...
Modelo Extractivista Aeroportuario y Turismo ¡Voces desde los pueblos!
Gobiernos y empresas promueven los aeropuertos como un símbolo de progreso y con promesas de «desarrollo». En realidad, la construcción de aeropuertos e infraestructuras asociadas expulsa a la población de sus tierras, destruye los medios de vida, saquea el agua y el...
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...
Grupos de la sociedad civil rechazan el Greenwashing de biocombustibles de BSBIOS Paraguay/ECB
Asunción/Londres/Utrecht/Viena, April 7 2022 – Un nuevo estudio de caso publicado por ONGs que detalla el daño ambiental y social que causaría la refinería de biofuel Omega Green, que está construyendo en Paraguay la empresa brasileña ECB, ha recibido una respuesta...
Grupos de la sociedad civil rechazan el Greenwashing de biocombustibles de BSBIOS Paraguay/ECB
Asunción/Londres/Utrecht/Viena, April 7 2022 – Un nuevo estudio de caso publicado por ONGs que detalla el daño ambiental y social que causaría la refinería de biofuel Omega Green, que está construyendo en Paraguay la empresa brasileña ECB, ha recibido una respuesta...
Biocombustibles de aviación: Una enorme refinería amenaza los medios de vida y los ecosistemas locales en Paraguay, según un nuevo estudio de caso
La refinería de agrocombustibles (biocombustibles) Omega Green en Paraguay es una de las mayores refinerías de agrocombustibles del mundo y la primera de Sudamérica La escasa demanda de agrocombustibles para la aviación en Paraguay significa que este combustible va a...
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...
El rol de mujeres que resisten ante injusticias ambientales relacionadas con aeropuertos
En el Día Internacional de la Mujer, 8 de marzo de 2022, La red de Stay Grounded (Quédate en tierra/Permanecer en tierra) y el proyecto EnvJustice, destacan el rol de mujeres que resisten ante injusticias causadas por proyectos de expansión y construcción de nuevos...
Young People in France Ready to Fly Less
This summary article was first posted on Greenpeace France's website. You can find it here in French. This research on the travel practices of young French people, entrusted by Greenpeace France to L'Obsoco, analyzes the tourist practices of young people with regard...
Nuevo informe sobre biocombustibles para aviación en Estado español por Ecologistas miembro de SG
Este resumen fue publicado originalmente en la página web de Ecologistas. Puedes encontrarlo aquí: https://www.ecologistasenaccion.org/187431/informe-los-biocombustibles-para-aviacion-en-el-estado-espanol/ Políticas de descarbonización poco claras y menos que...
Where is the crime? Judging those responsible for ecocide, acquitting those who defend the planet!
This article was originally published in Portuguese on 10 January 2022 on the ATERRA website to call for a solidarity protest at the trial of the Portuguese activist Kiko, who protested against the construction of a new airport in the metropolitan area of Lisbon back...
Engaging aviation workers and trade unions
Climate campaigners are coalescing around an agenda of no expansion of airports and the need for a long-term reduction of aviation. However, not all of these campaigns have incorporated worker perspectives to better understand the impact on jobs and changes to local...
26 COPs and still climate breakdown not arrested!
A blog post by Stay Grounded member RisingTideUK So, the mouldy green dust of the "climate Davos" has settled on another COP "negotiation". 27 years on and the story is still: can; kick; road. Rather than consigning coal, oil and gas to the past, the first mention in...
Military Aviation in Climate Policies: A Tradition of Camouflage
Military emissions have evaded critical United Nations Framework Convention for Climate Change (UNFCCC) review for decades and continue to be exempted from international climate obligations in practice. The carbon footprint of the Pentagon from fuel usage alone is...
Webinar: Is the industry greenwashing aviation?
For decades we have witnessed massive growth rates in aviation without any meaningful attempt from neither industry nor government to deal with it’s damaging climate impact. The short pause through Covid was directly followed by massive and unconditional bailouts from...
“Bullshit Flights”: A debate on legitimate air traffic
Flying is essentially a luxury activity, and in many cases downright obscene. Our definition: bullshit flights are unnecessary, frivolous and unfair – and should be stopped immediately. This article summarizes the results of a Stay Grounded survey on bullshit flights, and poses some questions about the future of our mobility system.
Protest actions around the globe against aviation greenwashing during COP26
Stop Greenwashing – Reduce Air Traffic Now! In the first days of November 2021, protest actions across the globe coordinated by Stay Grounded called for an end to aviation’s greenwashing and an effective reduction of air traffic. The diverse protests were part of the...
The Troubling Story of Aviation‘s Greenwashing
Greenwashing is the corporate practice of making diverting sustainability claims to cover up a questionable environmental record. While there‘s a long record of oil companies misleading the public, it is now time to shed a light on the airline and airport industry‘s...
Looking back at 5 Years of Stay Grounded
Looking back at 5 Years of Stay GroundedExactly five years ago, at the beginning of October 2016, ‘Stay Grounded’ was born. We organized simultaneous actions at airports around the world and in 2018, we went public as a network. A lot has happened since, and as we...
Frequent Flyer Programmes Incentivise Climate Destruction
Let’s end them: Here’s why Opposition to air travel is growing rapidly due to its climate and public health impacts. Frequent flyer programmes (FFPs) – the most successful marketing scheme of all time[1] – have contributed to the airline industry’s growth and the...
No a la expansión de los aeropuertos Madrid y Barcelona
(photo credits: @Christine Tyler / Stay Grounded) Más de 100 organizaciones reclaman al Gobierno cancelar las ampliaciones de los aeropuertos de Madrid y Barcelona La ampliación de infraestructuras aeroportuarias y el crecimiento de la aviación son incompatibles con...
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...
The Zapatistas’ grounded travel & anti-airport struggles
After sailing across the Atlantic for more than one month, on the 10th of June, a delegation of Zapatistas reached the shores of the European continent at the Azores archipelago, Portugal. In their baggage they carry stories of years of struggles and visions to be...
Two years jail for denouncing Lisbon’s airport expansion?
From Inês Teles and Francisco Pedro, Aterra (member organisation Stay Grounded), originally posted on Movement Hub. The Portuguese government and VINCI corp plan to expand Lisbon airport and build a second one on a natural reserve. In response, the ATERRA campaign...
Destination Degrowth – Ein gerechter Übergang vom Flugverkehr zur klimagerechten Mobilität
Seit Beginn der Corona-Pandemie ist der Flugverkehr am Boden. Seit vielen Jahren schon ist klar, dass Fliegen die klimaschädlichste und ungerechteste Form der Mobilität ist. Wie geht es nun weiter? Zurück zum business as usual oder ein Umschwenken in Richtung...
This is your pilot speaking
This is your pilot speaking: brace for the greatest emergency of our lives Written by the pilot Dan Tipney It might seem hard to believe that just 17% of the global population have ever set foot on a commercial aircraft. However, no doubt like many who read this, for...
10 razones por las que volar como antes del Covid es una pésima idea
La pandemia redució el tráfico aéreo de forma masiva en 2020, dando un breve respiro al clima. Pero si superamos el Covid el año siguiente, ¿deberíamos despegar de nuevo? Decimos: ¡No! Veámos por qué1. Volar es muy malo por tu huella climática Tomar un vuelo de larga...
Stay Grounded In Review: 2020 – The Year That Changed Everything?
This was a difficult year for everyone. The pandemic that took us all by surprise and caused so much pain, also grounded most flights. We look back on a special, difficult year, but one that was also full of advances and successes for our network. After the...
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...
Protest flour against Vienna Airport Expansion
In Austria, a coalition of local producers, citizens' initiatives and climate activists created the "3rd Runway Flour" made from organic wheat grown on the fields that Vienna International Airport wants to seal for a planned third runway. With the 3rd runway flour,...
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...
Staying on the Ground in India: “Slow travel is the way forward”
In this grounded story by Vivek Gilani we learn about his motivation to reduce flying and about train travel in India. Vivek is Managing Director of cBalance, a new Stay Grounded member, which creates climate action tools for industry, institutions and consumers. The...
Virtually International – How Virtual Meetings Can Help to Avoid Flights
Summary of the webinar “Virtually international - how virtual meetings can help to avoid flights” On October 22nd 2020, Stay Grounded organised with Let’s Stay Grounded campaign partner Zeroing Flying a Webinar on how virtual communication can help us to avoid...
Island Hopping for the Advanced Traveller
original blogpost by Zomer Zonder Vliegen From Malta to Texel without a plane! The Dutch Suzanne Maas has been living in Malta for several years, far away in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, 100 kilometers south of Sicily. Quite a challenge, if you want to get to...
October 3rd: Let’s march on airports
The Stay Grounded network invites groups to join the French mobilization for a reduction of air traffic and a just transition towards a climate-safe transport system.
13 Grounded Holiday Destinations to Put on Your Bucket List
The original version of this article was written in Dutch by our Let’s Stay Grounded campaign partner Natuur en Milieu.
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...
Emissions Offsetting: a Modern Sale of Indulgences
Offsetting emissions from flights is a popular measure amongst organisations trying to implement more sustainable travel policies. However, offsets generally means no real change in behaviours and policies, and is virtually useless in terms of emissions reductions....
Call to ban short haul flights in France
On July 3rd, Stay Grounded and its member Climate Action Network France (Réseau Action Climat), together with 15 other organisations, sent a letter to the French Minister of Ecological and Solidarity Transition demanding the government to limit domestic air...
Traveling by cargo ship: climate-friendly alternative or not?
How useful is it to consider piggybacking on a ship as an alternative to an intercontinental flight? Is a journey with a container ship part of a summer without flying? The Belgian campaign Summer Without Flying inspires people to rediscover alternatives for air...
Electric flying unfeasible for longer distances
In recent years, there has been increasing interest in the use of electricity as a source of energy for aircraft. Is ‘sustainable flying’ within reach? An expert from the aviation industry explains.
Grounding Travel Policies in Organisations
In the Stay Grounded webinar on «Grounding travel policies in organisations» we explored different measures available to organisations to reduce business air travel. The webinar had a focus on academia, with inputs from University Bergen and Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
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....
How to Do Grounded Online Campaigning
How can small NGOs or grassroots groups run multiple social media channels like Facebook, Twitter or Instagram in an effective way and coordinate properly?
Airport Conflicts – Struggles for Environmental Justice
All across the globe airport projects involve new land acquisition, the destruction of ecosystems, displacement of people and local pollution and health issues. This webinar presented the results of 300 socio-environmental conflicts related to the expansion or creation of new airports or aerotropolis that were mapped in research in collaboration between Environmental Justice Atlas and Stay Grounded.
Campaigns to reduce aviation – a movement for the privileged?
Summary of our webinar to explore inclusiveness and social justice in our communications and actions As a global network, Stay Grounded has members all over the world and the global solidarity work is central to our work. Still most of our member groups are in Europe...
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"...
Not every train is good – Why we have to say «NO to the Maya train»
All around the world people from our member groups are fighting against new airports or airport expansions. But a just and climate safe mobility is not only about reducing aviation and airports. It is about building a transport system and infrastructure that supports...
Airline bailouts – Has Air France been tied down by ‘green strings’?
This is an edited version of an article originally published by Calum Harvey-Scholes of the Exeter University Energy Policy Group Covid-19 has spread rapidly around the world, partly due to busy international transport connections. Attempts to suppress its...
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...
Next Webinars on Social and Environmental Justice: 30th of April and 7th of May
During the past year we had many discussions in our network about our news campaigns and whether they are inclusive and diverse. Also in our last network meeting we agreed to strengthen the Global South perspectives in out network and bring in more diversity in terms...
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...
Open letter: COVID-19 Just Recovery Principles
With their measures against the Covid-19 crisis, governments must follow principles that ensure a just recovery. These principles must ensure that a future after Corona will be healthier and greener, more social, democratic and resilient. Together with hundreds of...
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...
Erasmus Student Network’s partnership with Ryanair– outdated in times of climate crisis
Stay Grounded sends open letter urging the Erasmus Student Network (ESN) to end partnership with low-cost carrier Ryanair and instead collaborate with rail companies. Version française voir ci-dessous Ryanair, along with Erasmus Student Network (ESN), has committed to...
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...
How to Tell Grounded Stories
Aviation is deeply engrained in the lifestyle of many people in the Global North. Decades of advertising and campaigning by the industry lead to a view of flying that is connected to freedom and an open minded society. But with the rapidly escalating climate crisis...
New night train Vienna – Brussels celebrated by climate action groups in both cities
After more than 15 years of absence, the night train connecting Brussels and Vienna returns. Twice a week, travelers can now travel in their sleep between the two capitals. It is only a modest start, but in both cities Stay Grounded members welcomed the new night train as a positive step towards a more climate friendly transport system. The first departing trains were celebrated directly on the platform by activists wearing pyjamas.
Paris airport expansion opposed by 67 mayors
France: 67 mayors, among them the current mayor of Paris, officially oppose the Roissy CDG airport expansion in an open letter to E. Macron. On Thursday 16th, a group of mayors representing more than sixty cities surrounding Paris gave a press conference on the topic...