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Campaigners offer free train tickets to travellers, call on BA and government to act on aviation emissions

Greenpeace has set up a "climate ticket exchange" in Newquay airport, where people booked on BA's latest domestic route can swap their plane tickets for climate-friendly train tickets.

A misjudged push for 'green' fuels could instead damage the climate and trash rainforests, according to the UK's largest environmental and development groups today.

Biofuels - which are similar to petrol but less environmentally damaging because they are made from crops and wastes - could play an important role in tackling global warming. But, say bosses from the RSPB, WWF, Greenpeace, Oxfam and Friends of the Earth, the government's dash for biofuels is ill thought out, lacks appropriate safeguards and could be creating more problems than it solves.

Campaigners offer free train tickets to travellers, call on BA and govt to act on aviation emissions.

Greenpeace has set up a "climate ticket exchange" in Gatwick airport, where people booked on BA's latest domestic route can swap their plane tickets for climate-friendly train tickets.

Reacting to the European Commission’s announcement of mandatory standards on vehicle emissions, Greenpeace campaigner Emily Armistead said:

BAA announces plans to expand airport as UN readies climate report

Stansted airport operators BAA today unveiled plans for a second runway, prompting condemnation from environmental campaigners concerned at the role aviation is playing in fuelling climate change.

BAA announces plans to expand airport as UN readies climate report

Stansted airport operators BAA today unveiled plans for a second runway, prompting condemnation from environmental campaigners concerned at the role aviation is playing in fuelling climate change.

Just two months ago Uttlesford District Council blocked plans to increase passenger numbers at the airport, citing climate change as a reason. But today BAA Chief Executive Stephen Nelson unveiled proposals to push for a second runway at the airport near Chelmsford, Essex.

Commenting ahead of the government's announcement of a voluntary code on carbon off-setting and a statement from Tesco which is also due to feature off-setting, Charlie Kronick, head of Greenpeace's climate and energy campaign, said:

Commenting on remarks by Tony Blair that he expected new technology to mitigate aviation's contribution to climate change, Greenpeace campaigner Emily Armistead said: