Emissions de-growth
INFRASTRUCTURE
• Is degrowth is becoming mainstream?
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/mindless-growth-robust-scientific-case-for-degrowth-is-stronger-every-day-1.4011495
OFFSETS SCAMMING
• Aviation & carbon emissions: pressure grows for net zero
https://centreforaviation.com/analysis/reports/aviation–carbon-emissions-pressure-grows-for-net-zero-475985
• ‘Flight shaming’ could help unleash billions in airline cash to protect the Amazon and other tropical forests
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/environment/story/2019-09-14/flight-shaming-unleash-airline-cash-to-save-amazon
FLIGHT LEVY
• Could cheap flights in Germany receive a ‘penalty tax’?
https://www.thelocal.de/20190830/germany-looks-to-penalize-cheap-flights-to-cut-carbon-emissions/amp?__twitter_impression=true
• Only the rich fly regularly – so now they’ve got to pay to tackle climate change
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/climate-crisis-aviation-tax-emissions-carbon-tax-labour-party-a9092731.html
• Germany mulls doubling air travel tax to tackle climate issues
https://www.travelpulse.com/news/airlines/germany-mulls-doubling-air-travel-tax-to-tackle-climate-issues.html
POLICY
• Policies necessary to achieve Australia’s commitments under the 2015 Paris Agreement
https://climateactionmoreland.org/2019/08/27/submission-to-climate-change-authority-policies-necessary-to-achieve-australias-commitments-under-the-2015-paris-agreement/?fbclid=IwAR1CDD5OALviFmWbqyLtagN4-gMmlL_IZLF1ZaHowHH5p0DZsTtA55gvf_s
Emissions growth
INFRASTRUCTURE
• China opens massive new airport in Beijing
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/25/daxing-international-airport-zaha-hadid-starfish-opens-beijing
• World’s top five fastest growing airports for passengers and cargo revealed
https://aci.aero/news/2019/09/17/worlds-top-five-fastest-growing-airports-for-passengers-and-cargo-revealed/
• Redbridge councillors agree to oppose ‘detrimental’ London City Airport expansion plans
https://www.ilfordrecorder.co.uk/news/redbridge-council-oppose-london-city-airport-expansion-1-6281467
FLIGHT DEMAND
• Rich people contribute disproportionately to airline emissions; we need a frequent flyer levy
• Climate change and flight turbulence
https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/blueprintforliving/climate-change-and-turbulence/11481574
• Rising emissions overshadow airlines fuel efficiency gains
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/rising-emissions-overshadow-airlines-fuel-efficiency-gains/
• ‘Worse than anyone expected’: Air travel emissions vastly outpace predictions
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/19/climate/air-travel-emissions.html#click=https://t.co/X0BEm7zc71
• Airlines’ CO2 emissions rising up to 70% faster than predicted
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/sep/19/airlines-co2-emissions-rising-up-to-70-faster-than-predicted?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
DEREGULATION
• Why ICAO and Corsia cannot deliver on climate
https://www.transportenvironment.org/publications/why-icao-and-corsia-cannot-deliver-climate?fbclid=IwAR3lSRghAtzjSf_wyi5h7C15ywv4sAcfGToaLEW4dCGE-Hh2dAVQlKGiNvg
ALTERNATIVE FUELS
• Aviation’s flight towards low emissions only fuels the crisis
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/sep/19/aviations-flight-towards-low-emissions-only-fuels-the-crisis?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Individual change
FLIGHT REFRAIN
• A story of two university professors in NZ who gave up flying for a year
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12269340
• Ask famous people to take the pledge
https://www.flightfree.co.uk/post/an-open-letter-to-the-duke-and-duchess-of-sussex
• ‘Flight shaming’ threatens air travel demand beyond Europe: IATA chief
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-airlines-iata-environment/flight-shaming-threatens-air-travel-demand-beyond-europe-iata-chief-idUSKCN1VP04P
• Experts push back on growing ‘flight shame’ movement
https://www.eenews.net/stories/1061110965
• Flight shamers want us to give up air travel. They’re not wrong
https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/xweynk/flight-shamers-want-us-to-give-up-air-travel-theyre-not-wrong
• Why ‘flight shame’ is making people swap planes for trains
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190909-why-flight-shame-is-making-people-swap-planes-for-trains
• Flight shame: The climate hazards of air travel
https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2019/08/31/flight-shame-the-climate-hazards-of-air-travel/
• Why I’m grounding my flying addiction
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/comment/giving-up-flying/
Social change
INSTITUTIONS
• Academic careers are not harmed by flying less
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959652619311862?via%3Dihub
• Travel writers talking about flying
https://www.flightfree.co.uk/post/independent-influencers-holding-a-public-conversation-about-flying
PROTESTS
• Activists use drones to shut down Heathrow
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-49509852
• History will be kind to Heathrow climate protesters who stop us flying
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/sep/04/history-kind-heathrow-climate-protesters-stop-us-flying
• ‘Why I’m using a drone to stop Heathrow flights’
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-49636149https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-49636149
ALTERNATIVE TRAVEL
• Life in a post-flying Australia
https://theconversation.com/life-in-a-post-flying-australia-and-why-it-might-actually-be-ok-70388
• Taxpayers can subsidise a monopoly rail line for Adani, but it’s “too expensive” to build rail infrastructure for public transport
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/sep/27/adani-coalmine-queensland-warned-not-to-sign-royalty-deal-until-rail-line-agreed?fbclid=IwAR3OWD1_uA00LNuM3XIceZN0lUzpvrN4WpJ_INvxX17RlLw7kwUQ_k99lf0
• KLM replaces flight with train
https://news.klm.com/klm-thalys-and-ns-dutch-railways-have-joined-forces-to-replace-flights-between-brussels-and-amsterdam-airport-schiphol/