10 bonnes raisons de moins prendre l’avion qu’avant le Covid
La pandémie a réduit massivement le trafic aérien en 2020 : un bref répit pour le climat. Mais si nous vainquons le Covid l'an prochain, faut-il « redécoller » ? Pour nous, c'est non ! Voici pourquoi :1. Prendre l'avion est catastrophique pour notre impact sur le...
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 ONG appellent l’UE à prendre rapidement des mesures pour réduire tous les impacts climatiques du transport aérien
Une nouvelle étude pour la Commission européenne montre clairement que l’impact climatique du transport aérien est bien pire que ce qui est dit et répété. Malgré cela, la Commission européenne ne propose pas d'action pouvant entrer en application avant 5 à 8 ans. Les...
Une étude de la Commission européenne apporte des preuves supplémentaires de l’importance de l’impact climatique du transport aérien
Une nouvelle étude de la Commission européenne montre clairement que l’impact climatique du transport aérien est bien pire que prévu. Au même moment, le secteur aérien réuni pour l'assemblée annuelle de l'IATA, réclame aux Etats une rallonge de 80 milliards de...
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...
Understanding Greenwashing and False Solutions
The aviation industry is engaged in a concerted global greenwashing campaign to divert attention from the immense climate impact of air traffic. More worryingly still, UN body for civil aviation has developed a worldwide climate mitigation plan which does not cut...
Frequent Flyer Levy: Tackling the Injustice of Flying
Air travel is the preserve of the global rich: recent research shows that less than 1% of the global population cause more than 50% of emissions from passenger air travel. Reducing this frequent flying behaviour in a relatively small number of people would produce a...
The total climate impact of aviation
For a long time, the aviation industry and governments ignored the fact that aviation's climate impact is not only about CO2: burning kerosene at altitude also generates contrails, induced cloudiness and NOx derivatives that, although short lived, contribute...
Airport actions & campaigns – lessons learned on successful strategies and tactics
Despite climate crisis and global pandemic, airport expansion and construction projects are being planned or continued around the world. Those projects involve new land acquisition, the destruction of ecosystems, displacement of people - sometimes including human...
Appels à la décroissance du transport aérien depuis le fief toulousain d’Airbus
A l’occasion de tribunes successives, au cours de cette année 2020, des ingénieurs de l’aéronautique et des chercheurs prennent le taureau par les cornes et saisissent l’opportunité de la crise frappant le secteur aérien pour appeler à repenser son modèle en assumant...
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...
Taxes or Limits?
Measures to reduce air traffic in a just way On September 22nd, the Stay Grounded network held a webinar to discuss which measures are more suitable to limit aviation and its climate impact: Taxes on kerosene, VAT or frequent flyers? Or rather limits on flights and...
#AvionsATerre : manifestations dans 18 aéroports français
Suite à l'appel lancé par Alternatiba et ANV-COP21, membres de Rester sur Terre (Stay Grounded), à marcher sur les aéroports, 2000 personnes se sont mobilisées le 3 octobre dans 18 aéroports en France et au Mexique pour exiger des mesures de réduction du trafic...
Grounded Academics: Christoph Küffer, ETH Zürich
Christoph Küffer is a senior researcher at the Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zürich, and professor for urban ecology at the University of Applied Sciences Rapperswil. He is now into his fifth year of (almost) not flying. In our testimonial, he tells us his...
E-carburants : une alternative irréaliste pour alimenter les avions
Bien que la crise de Covid ait réduit considérablement le transport aérien, l’industrie aéronautique a l’intention de reprendre la croissance massive prévue pour le secteur. Étant donné que l’utilisation d’avions électriques à grande échelle et sur de longues...
Sail to the COP – a grounded sailing story
“We woke up with dolphins and flying fish around the ship. But far more importantly, it was the most unique opportunity to form a community, unlike anything else I have experienced.” Rosa Hofgärtner from ExPlane shares the adventurous journey she, together with...
Just Transition in the Aviation Sector
Ways for shifting towards a climate-just transport system. The role of aviation workers and the state On August 4th, the Stay Grounded network held a webinar on the question how a just transition of aviation could be organized. Inputs by a pilot, a trade unionist, and...
Le 3 octobre, marchons sur les aéroports !
Le samedi 3 octobre, nous marcherons sur les aéroports, avec détermination et non-violence, pour la réduction du trafic aérien et la reconversion de ce secteur, en solidarité avec les salarié·es qui subissent une crise sociale due à des mauvais choix politiques.
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...
Plan de soutien à l’aéronautique : le gouvernement français dans l’illusion du « zéro-carbone »
Si l’avion « zéro-carbone » voit le jour, il manque sa cible, incapable qu’il est de s’appliquer aux long-courriers qui représentent pourtant actuellement 63 % des émissions de CO2 de l’aviation commerciale en France, et pour lesquels il n’existe pas de réelle...
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.
La compensation carbone : le retour du commerce des indulgences ?
Faire de la « compensation carbone » dans l'espoir de contrebalancer les émissions générées par les voyages en avion est une mesure très prisée des entreprises ou organisations s'efforçant d'adopter une politique de déplacements plus durable. Mais ladite compensation...
Appel à limiter les liaisons aériennes en France et vers l’Europe
Le 3 juillet dernier, Stay Grounded, le Réseau Action Climat France, ainsi que 15 autres organisations, ont envoyé une lettre à la ministre de la Transition écologique et solidaire, demandant une vraie politique de report modal de l’avion vers le train en France et en...
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...
En France, la mobilisation citoyenne s’intensifie contre l’aérien
Source: XR France En France, la mobilisation citoyenne s’intensifie contre l’aérien, pour protester contre la croissance d’un secteur incompatible avec la transition écologique. En France, avant la crise du covid-19, le secteur aérien était en pleine expansion. Les...
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.
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...
Le partenariat du réseau Erasmus Student Network avec Ryanair est anachronique en ce temps de crise climatique
Dans une lettre ouverte, Stay Grounded demande au Erasmus Student Network (ESN) de mettre fin à son partenariat avec la compagnie low cost Ryanair et de signer des accords avec des compagnies ferroviaires. ESN et Ryanair se sont en effet engagés à faciliter les...
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...
Degrowth of Aviation
How to reduce air travel in a just way? On 5th of December, Stay Grounded presented the new report "Degrowth of Aviation. Reducing air travel in a just way" in a webinar. The report had been produced with much input from the conference on Degrowth of Aviation held in...
System Change and/or Behaviour Change?
On Oct. 29th 2019, our second Stay Grounded Webinar took place. We discussed with experts the role of behaviour change approaches regarding the much needed systemic change of our society and new social theories reframing the role of the individual in instigating...
CORSIA – better or worse than nothing?
The next ICAO Assembly on CORSIA will take place in Montreal from the 24th of September until the 4th of October 2019. Stay Grounded offered a webinar on the 29th of August that explained the current status in the CORSIA process and indicated ways to resist the problematic scheme. Find a shortened version of the recorded webinar, and an overview here.
Salon du Bourget : face à l’urgence climatique, gardons les pieds sur terre !
Communiqué du réseau STAY GROUNDED Du 17 au 23 juin 2019 se tiendra au Bourget le 53ème Salon International de l’Aéronautique et de l’Espace, près de quatre ans après la signature en ces lieux de l’Accord de Paris, par lequel 195 pays s’engageaient à réduire...