Noticias y Blog
En esta sección encontrará información actual sobre la industria de la aviación y las campañas para contrarrestarla. Puede ver todos los artículos de una categoría haciendo clic en el botón amarillo con el nombre de la categoría.
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.