Progress Report on Aviation White Paper Set to Confirm Government’s Desire for 3rd Runway at Heathrow

Campaigners promise ‘mother of all battles.

The Government is expected to confirm its desire to see a 3rd runway built at Heathrow when it issues its ‘Progress Report’ on its 2003 Aviation White Paper this week (1). Continue reading “Progress Report on Aviation White Paper Set to Confirm Government’s Desire for 3rd Runway at Heathrow”

It would be a ‘climate crime’ to expand Heathrow in light of new report, say campaigners

Heathrow campaigners said it would be a ‘climate crime’ to expand Heathrow in the light off the new report (1) by Sir Nicholas Stern calling on the Government to take immediate action to tackle climate change. The widely-leaked report, commissioned by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Continue reading “It would be a ‘climate crime’ to expand Heathrow in light of new report, say campaigners”

Are the UK’s aviation and climate change policies impossible bed-fellows?

A report launched today by the University of Oxford presents new evidence,
which shows to what extent the Government’s policies on aviation fly in the
face of policies on climate change. It says that by 2050, carbon dioxide
emissions Continue reading “Are the UK’s aviation and climate change policies impossible bed-fellows?”