Say NO to airport expansion: a UK-wide campaign

https://www.noairportexpansion.org/

The government’s advisory group, the Climate Change Committee, has said that there should be no increase in airport capacity if we are to achieve net zero by 2050. But across the UK, 20 airports have expansion plans. Current planned and recently approved airport expansions will allow for a 50-70% increase in demand.

We are calling for a moratorium on airport expansion for the next three years, in order to halt aviation’s runaway growth and its contribution to climate change.

The aviation industry claims that so-called ‘sustainable’ aviation fuels (SAFs) will reduce emissions, thereby enabling continued expansion. Other proposed means of reducing emissions are new technology, offsets and carbon capture and removal. But the sustainability claims of SAFs are in doubt, new technology is still in development, offsetting has been proven not to be effective, and carbon capture and storage is still only small scale.

In order to halt aviation’s continued and accelerating contribution to climate change, we need to halt airport expansion NOW