After over a thousand of us emailed to call for climate action, the government has finally brought in a new tax on private jets!
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Over 100 organisations have now signed up our Climate Perks scheme, meaning they’ll give their staff paid ‘journey days’ on top of annual leave for flight-free travel. Employers who have signed up include architects, accountants, legal firms, NGOs, the government’s own climate advisors, and more…
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The vast majority of Premier League journeys can be made by coach in under four and a half hours. Yet some of the top teams are choosing to use private jets - driving up carbon emissions and threatening our progress to creating the zero carbon Britain we need. So we’re taking action to tackle football’s flight problem - will you help?
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Our lawyers have just filed formal complaints about British Airways and Virgin Atlantic. They are misleading the public about their environmental actions, downplaying the harm they’re causing to our climate, and pretending they can meet emissions targets without cutting back on flights. This is slowing down progress towards a zero carbon Britain, and we’re not having it.
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Our new report has found that achieving lifetime membership status of a frequent flyer programme (FFP) could require emitting more than 1,800 tonnes of greenhouse gases per person.
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We all know that flying is bad for the climate - but how bad are private jets? We crunched the numbers to find out - and they’re even worse than we thought!
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The government is promising zero emissions airports by 2040. They’ve forgotten one tiny thing: the 95% of emissions from the actual flights!
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That’s right, along with Group for Action on Leeds Bradford Airport (GALBA), we are taking the government to court. In October 2022, with lawyers at Leigh Day, we filed for a judicial review of the “Jet Zero” strategy (its plan for aviation emissions), which the Department for Transport released in July 2022. Our legal challenges will now proceed to a joint hearing.
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A quick overview of three common myths around the availability of sustainable air travel, why we call relying on technology alone ‘false solutions’, and what you can do to take meaningful action on air travel.
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After an evaluation by the Centre Change and Social Transformations we know Climate Perks users are choosing lower-carbon transport for their holidays when typically they would have flown.
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The government’s dangerous plans for aviation won’t do anything to bring down emissions.
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The government’s long awaited ‘Jet Zero’ strategy was published. It was supposed to be a road map to decarbonising the aviation industry, but in reality it gave them the green light to continue emitting for decades to come.
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Our new report with Green Gumption reviews the climate targets which the international aviation industry set itself since the year 2000.
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In the scenario which reduced aviation by two thirds, 187,000 jobs were lost and 521,000 created, providing a net increase in jobs of around 337,000.
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Our new research shows the potential for direct supply from solar farms to meet traction energy demand on a fully electrified Indian Railways.
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Are flights actually much cheaper in reality, or is that more of a misconception created by airline marketing? We checked out some prices to find out more…
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