The aviation industry's response to climate change is scandalous and reckless.
With aviation emissions taking off, we face a simple choice: either we allow the aviation industry to keep expanding airports, introducing new and unnecessary routes, promoting a culture of binge flying and dumping carbon into our skies unfettered, or we cap the growth of aviation emissions.
We're working to prevent the number of flights from growing to dangerous levels - the growth in aviation is ruining our chances of stopping dangerous climate change.
To achieve this, companies like British Airways need to end their needless short haul routes, Meanwhile, the government needs to ban all mainland domestic routes where the train is an easy alternative, and transfer the billions of pounds' worth of subsidies the aviation industry currently receives over to the rail industry.
Most importantly, the government must end plans for airport expansion, starting by scrapping proposals for a third runway at Heathrow. Already Europe's largest by some margin, a third runway would mean an increase in traffic of around 70 per cent, the majority of it to short-haul destinations. This will be a key battle in the fight to stabilise CO2 emissions, and one that we must win.
Find out more about how you can help stop Heathrow expansion. For more background on the wider impacts of aviation on climate change please take look at our our frequently asked questions.
