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🚨 BREAKING: We have sent a letter to decision-makers across Europe.
Along with 75+ organisations, our demands are simple:
1. Ban private jets
2. Ban frequent flyer programs
3. Tax frequent flying
#BanPrivateJets
Meet the pilot who quit flying because of the climate crisis
Todd Smith is a former airline pilot - now an activist with
@ExtinctionR
and co-founder of
@_SafeLanding
.
👨✈️🌍 Read the article by
@dw_environment
:
In two days, French deputies will vote on a ban of
#PrivateJets
!
After the victory in Amsterdam, this could become the next level. Let’s make noise and show that we’re fed up with the jet-setting world destruction of the super-rich.
🧵1/3
"French lawmakers voted to abolish domestic flights on routes than can be covered by train in under two-and-a-half hours, as the government seeks to lower carbon emissions even as the air travel industry reels from the global pandemic"
Well, it's a start.
💥 MASS ACTION AT LIÈGE AND ANTWERP AIRPORTS 💥
Hundreds of activists from across Europe took action today at Liège Airport & Antwerp Airport, highlighting the injustice and climate impact of aviation and demanding a radical reduction of flights! 1/
#ClimateJusticeNow
✈️🚫
Around the world, polluting airlines are calling on governments for bailouts due to the
#Coronavirus
.
We demand: any public money has to ensure that workers and the climate are put first!
Join us! Sign the petition and say
#SavePeopleNotPlanes
!
✒️
BREAKING: The Amsterdam City Council is pushing for a ban on private jets at the city's airport. This would be a great success and set a precedent making it easier to
#BanPrivateJets
at other airports.
Today, the
#Davos
World Economic Forum
#WEF23
starts - involving hundreds of
#PrivateJets
.
🔥 On their arrival, jets were blocked by
@Debt4ClimateCH
🔎New analysis by
@Greenpeace
shows the staggering ecological hypocrisy of
@WEF
participants and the world's 1% 👇🧵
1/4
We need new narratives to reduce aviation and lay the tracks for a fair planet!
Today we release our new reframing guide:
#CommonDestination
It's a powerful toolbox for activists and campaigners working on
#ClimateJustice
and sustainable mobility.
#ReframeAviation
#Thread
1/8
All 102 climate activists who had been detained after their peaceful protest for more than 24 hours are now released!
🥳Bravo for the brave action, interrupting
#EBACE2023
the biggest private jet sales event in Europe.
#BanPrivateJets
🚨 Happening now! 🚨 Scientists blocked the Grafair private jet terminal in Sweden and painted it red! Once again, activists are targeting the injustice of aviation & demanding that the rich pay for the climate destruction they cause! It's time to
#MakeThemPay
&
#BanPrivateJets
!
It's
#COP26
and the
#aviation
industry has no plan - and no intention - to to do its fair share to stay below
#1point5
.
Instead, it's stepping up its
#greenwashing
.
🧵🔽 A thread about the top 5 false promises and the limits of 'green technologies' for '
#SustainableAviation
'.
Stop
#Greenwashing
-
#ReduceAirTraffic
Now!
❗️ Ahead of
#COP26
, the aviation industry is intensifying its greenwashing. We cannot let this happen!
So today we are launching a campaign against greenwashing with new factsheets, a petition and action days on 5 & 6 November.
🧵🔽
The strength of the movement to
#BanPrivateJets
is being felt 🔥: Austria, France, Ireland and the Netherlands are putting private jets on the agenda of the Transport Council meeting next week, calling on the EU to act on private jets 🛬
This image is incompatible with climate science and it's only ironic that it was registered during the hottest week ever recorded on Earth. This is a wake up call: we need to act NOW to halt the disastrous consequences of intensifying climate breakdown.
Yesterday was the busiest day for commercial aviation that we’ve ever tracked. We tracked 134,386 commercial flights on 6 July and today is shaping up to be another busy day. More than 20,000 flights are in the air right now.
🚨 BREAKING: Portuguese climate movement Climáximo is blockading private jets in Tires.
"Private jets are weapons of mass destruction and have no place in a burning society!"
Apoiantes do Climáximo estão neste momento a bloquear os jatos privados no Aeródromo de Cascais, em Tires. “Jatos privados são armas de destruição em massa e não têm lugar numa sociedade em chamas!”. É urgente banir jatos privados e travar a expansão da aviação
BREAKING:
#Sylt
airport blocked by "the coolest birds who stay on the ground".
Dozens of penguins entered the airport area with bikes, others block the entrance with a tripod.
Sylt is one of Germany's top private jet airports for the super-rich.
#BanPrivateJets
@ambodenbleiben
This is unacceptable!
Private jet flights are the definition of luxury – they should not be exempt from jet fuel tax, but pay a higher rate than normal flights!
The final directive must not contain such exemptions or loopholes, but apply to ALL flights!
‼️Today, private jet terminals are targeted to
#BanPrivateJets
and
#TaxFrequentFlyers
.
Actions have already staged at
1⃣ Luton London airport
2⃣ Schiphol Amsterdam
3⃣ Bromma Stockholm
4⃣ Milan
5⃣ AirOps Luxury Aviation Conference Brussels
6⃣ Victoria, Australia
7⃣ Lisbon
...
🧵
‼️ Breaking: Activists have just blocked the access to private jets in the Eindhoven Airport, with 5 demands:
- Stop polluting ☠️
- Cancel unnecessary flights 🛬
- Tell the truth 📢
- Set legal climate rules 📃
- Give flying a fair price 🪙
Breaking: onze rebellen blokkeren de toegang tot privéjets op Eindhoven Airport. Eindhoven Airport heeft de boel niet op orde. Naast alle luchtvervuiling, geluidsoverlast en gezondheidsschade die ze aanrichten, is er geen natuurvergunning.
#KrimpDeLuchtvaart
#SOSvoorHetKlimaat
#PrivateJet
flights have risen to record levels in Germany:
- 9.000 more than in 2019
- 250 flights a day
- making up 12% of Germany's flights (!)
- responsible for more than a million tons of GHG emissions a year
#BanPrivateJets
#BullshitFlights
➡️
Victory!! ✊🏽🥳
The Spanish government suspends the expansion of Barcelona airport.
The resistance by hundreds of local groups has worked. Congratulations to
@zeroportbcn
and all the organisations involved!
Another world is possible!
❗️🛬 Vienna Airport private terminal shut down by people from
#BlockGas
!
✊ Around 40 people are blocking gas lobbyists' private jets to disturb their convenient arrival in Vienna for the
#EuropeanGasConference
that's planned to take place in Vienna 27– 29 March.
#w2603
🚴🚴♀️ Bike demonstration against Europe's biggest private jet fair
#EBACE2023
has started now in Geneva.
The super-rich have to stop super-polluting! Let's ban excessive flights,
#BanPrivateJets
and
#TaxFrequentFlyers
!
We're taking steps to reduce our environmental impact on flights within Europe by recycling coffee cans and pads. Our coffee grounds are being processed in a digester, generating green energy. And that's not all! At the end of the process, we're left with nutrient-rich compost.
‼️Temporary detention of 100 climate activists who today exposed the biggest private jet sales event in Europe
#Ebace2023
, demanding to
#BanPrivateJets
.
Activists report use of pepper spray and injuries after police intervention. 😬
🧵 1/3
We can no longer allow the airline industry to
#greenwash
itself with advertising!
We can't allow any such fossil fuel advertising any longer:
#BanFossilAds
Take part in
@SubvertisersInt
's international week of action against aviation advertising:
New
#NightTrains
for Europe! 🌃🚆
Over the next few years, new lines will be:
Rome - Amsterdam
Vienna - Munich - Paris
Barcelona - Amsterdam
Zurich - Cologne - Amsterdam
Berlin - Brussels- Paris
At least 102 climate activists are still being detained over 20 hours‼️after a peaceful protest against Europe's largest private jet fair
#EBACE2023
.
We demand the immediate release of the 100 detained activists.
#BanPrivateJets
"The only way to be sustainable is to fly less!
This is a message the aviation industry wants to hide from us using greenwashing."
–
@CharlotteBraat
from
@FVReclame
When we talk about whether and how to reduce air traffic - let's never forget that 50% of aviation emissions are caused by 1% of people.
In other words: aviation mainly benefits the rich and harms the poor.
BREAKING:
@ExtinctionR
barricades Farnborough airport near London to demand end to private flights and tax-free fuel for the rich.
Protest comes as world’s political and business elite prepare to fly by private jet to the World Economic Forum
#WEF22
.
▶️
The World Economic Forum
@Davos
where climate and nature are top of the agenda, is reknowned as the planet's largest annual gathering of luxury private jets, highlighting the sheer hypocrisy of those attending this annual event
#StopPrivateFlightsNow
#PrivateFlightsCostTheEarth
All 17 people who took action yesterday at a private jet terminal in Sweden to
#BanPrivateJets
were arrested, including those who only held a banner or took photos 🤯 It's time to stop criminalising activists and go after the climate criminals who burn our future!
#Solidarity
Samtliga från
@ScientistRebel1
som deltog i förmiddagens aktion mot privatjetsterminalen på Bromma flygplats är arresterade, också de som inte gjorde civil olydnad utan endast höll i en banderoll, fotade och filmade. Är det så här vi ska ha det nu?
Knowing that
#PrivateJets
are a climate scandal, the private aviation industry fair
@Ebace
is attempting to wrap itself in a cloak of green, adopting the theme of sustainability.
Find out why this is no more than
#greenwashing
and
#FalseSolutions
👉
🧵1/
🔎 New research commissioned by
@GreenpeaceEU
reveals alarming growth of private jet emissions in Europe 🚨
There was a 64% percent increase from 2021 to 2022, with flights soaring from 350,078 to 572,806, and emissions more than doubling 🤯 1/
Our campaigners Mira and Sara travelled all the way from Germany and Austria (by 🚅) to join the march against airport expansion at
#TheBigOne
in London ✨
#UniteToSurvive
All across the globe people rise to counter
#aviation
demanding a transport system that is socially just & ecologically sustainable! Yesterday was the final of the
#StayGrounded
Global Action Weeks with 27 actions taking place in 11 countries. Watch & share the summary clip!
Today, more than 250 organisations from 25 countries published an open letter directed to governments, urging them to resist any
#aviation
lobby attempts to rush into unfair
#bailouts
of the industry.
#SavePeopleNotPlanes
Read our press release:
Who flies, who doesn’t – and who cannot fly? 🤔✈️
To keep global temperature rise to under 1.5°C, we have to cut consumption-based greenhouse gas emissions down to 2.5t CO2 equivalents per capita in 2030, 1.4t 2040 and 0.7t 2050.
One long-haul flight already exceeds this budget.
The inequality of aviation is staggering!
The richest 1% of the world's population is responsible for 50% of aviation emissions. In contrast, around 80% of the world's population has never flown.
5/14
Frequent Flyer Programmes Incentivise Climate Destruction – Let's End Them! ✈️💳❌
Learn how FFPs have contributed to the airline industry’s growth and the harms it causes – and how all of us are subsidising them. 🔽
Letzte Generation activists are blocking runways in the Düsseldorf and Hamburg airports! 🔥
They call out the German Government for not having a plan to meet 2030 climate goals and to cut emissions in the transport sector.
The world is on fire: we need to reduce ✈️ now!
✈️ Rollbahnen der Flughäfen Düsseldorf und Hamburg seit 6 Uhr blockiert!
👩⚖️ Wir protestieren gegen die Planlosigkeit und den Gesetzesbruch der Regierung in der Klimakrise.
Head of Germany's Left Party demands to
#BanPrivateJets
. 🙌
"The climate can no lo
@nger
afford the rich", says
@schirdewan
.
Green party doesn't touch the topic yet.
1/5 🧵
👉
An airline's business plan:
1) Maintain an unsustainable business model
2) Don't prepare for crises
3) In a crisis, ask taxpayers for bailouts
4) Receive millions in bailouts
5) Lay off employees anyway
6) Fight against ecological measures and paying taxes
🗣️ "This is one of the sectors that needs to disappear for the rest of us to have a chance at life".
Wise words by
@JKSteinberger
outside Europe's largest private jet sales event earlier this year.
#BanPrivateJets
The
#aviation
industry spins it as “decarbonising flying” 👉 But let’s call it what it really is: an unrealistic myth that distracts from profit-driven expansion of air traffic.
Let’s use our own framing to lay the tracks for a grounded future 🛬⬇️
Verkehrsminister
@andreasscheuer
lehnt heute eine
#Kerosinsteuer
ab:
Scheuer betreibt damit klimaschädliche und sozial ungerechte Politik. Eine Mehrheit der Deutschen fliegt selten bis nie. Eine Kerosinsteuer würde vor allem Reiche betreffen.
#NLKATBER
Cheers to the activists from
@xrFrance
,
@AnvCop21
and
@attac_fr
who introduced remote-controlled cars with smoke bombs at
#Cannes
-Mandelieu airport, blocking private jets from taking off 👏
No more planet-destroying luxuries for the super-rich! It's time to
#BanPrivateJets
!
Private jets are the epitome of climate injustice
Private jets are on average 10x more polluting per passenger than scheduled flights and 50x more than an average train ride
It's time to
#BanPrivateJets
Read more in our
#CommonDestination
guide:
This is nothing less than a disgrace:
@GGrimalda
, climate activist and researcher, was fired by
@kielinstitute
for refusing to fly on his travel back to Germany after field research. From the
@WCCJ23
we stand in solidarity with Gianluca and those who stand out for our future! ✊
Yesterday I was notified that
@kielinstitute
ended their contract with me.I thought the big support my story received made them change their mind,but no.I have no regrets in standing by my principles of
#RefuseToFly
. Read why in my piece for
@guardianeco
👉
1⃣ Private jets are the most polluting option. They emit huge amounts of climate-damaging emissions compared to already highly polluting commercial flights - and especially to low-emissions alternatives like trains.
#BanPrivateJets
#TaxFrequentFlyers
#MakePollutersPay
espite the massive arrests and disproportionate police violenceb in Antwerp, our activists in Liège have stood their ground and are now ready to block Liège airport. (Yes you've read this correctly, we planned 2 targets)🔥🔥
2⃣ One flight on a private jet causes much more pollution than most people in the world produce in a whole year for meeting all their needs like housing, daily mobility and food.
#BanPrivateJets
#TaxFrequentFlyers
#MakePollutersPay
#Biofuels
&
#aviation
: out of the frying pan into the fire
Biofuels are *theoretically* a feasible alternative to fossil jet fuel. But: they have countless negative side effects and their quantity will remain limited.
#greenwashing
A thread on their problems and limits. 🔽🧵
Flying regularly is not compatible with a 1.5 degree lifestyle.
Just one long-haul flight can emit more CO2 per passenger than what's feasible for staying below 1.5 degrees of global heating.
3/14
Massive demonstrations against airport expansions!
The people in Catalonia and Spain don't want more flights and bigger airports! They want "more life, less planes":
#MenysAvionsM
ésVida
That's what they showed yesterday – tens of thousands protested in Barcelona, Palma & Madrid.
The aviation industry wants to counter the movement for a reduction of
#aviation
with a "very, very big campaign".
Well, we'll counter your counter
@IATA
. We'll be launching a very, very, very big campaign next year. It's on! ✊
Together with
@pcs_union
, we are calling for a
#JustTransitionOfAviation
. ✈️▶️🚆
Business as usual is the wrong way for workers and the planet. Instead, we need a just reduction of air traffic!
Read our 🆕
#JustTransition
discussion paper:
Groundbreaking news! The plans for a third runway at
#Heathrow
Airport have been ruled illegal over the UK government's climate commitments and the
#ParisAgreement
!
Richard Branson says he and Virgin Galactic are opening space for everyone: “Imagine a world where people of all ages, all backgrounds from anywhere, of any gender, or any ethnicity have equal access to space. And they will in turn , I think inspire us back here on Earth."
Never forget that the richest 1% of EU citizens cause 23 tonnes of CO2 per capita with flying alone.
That's five times as much as a person in the poorer half of the population with all their vital needs such as housing, food and mobility.
#ClimateInjustice
5⃣ To stay within the 1.5 degree limit, *everyone* must reduce their footprint. Decadent activities with wasteful energy consumption and extreme emissions must end. No one should be allowed to buy their way out of this.
#BanPrivateJets
#TaxFrequentFlyers
#MakePollutersPay
BREAKING NEWS: Today, the Australian Government and
@AusAntarctic
have announced that they are abandoning with plans to build a giant concrete airport in
#Antarctica
.
The homes of penguins, seals and petrels will not be encased in 115000 tonnes of concrete!
#politas
#auspol