We’ve all heard the promise: Expand the airport, boost the local economy, create jobs. But is it actually true? Watch the full documentary here 👉 youtu.be/vJU_cXBQwKU

✈️ Fourteen years ago, intense industry lobbying stopped the EU from making international aviation pay for its pollution. Now, the EU has a second chance to get it right. youtu.be/nJ-4JDR7ND0 #Aviation #EUETS #ClimateSky #GreenSky

Aviation is Europe's fastest-growing source of emissions, and as this new analysis from @transportenvironment.org shows, most of it is going completely unpriced. 🧵 1/4

Meet some of the locals in Leeds who are fed-up of the airport breaking the rules and being allowed to disrupt their sleep. 1/3 www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEp8...

Today is International Noise Awareness Day 🔇 Aircraft noise isn't just an annoyance - they cause real physical and mental harm to the people living nearby. We want to share the story of one of our members living near Southend Airport. 1/2 www.aef.org.uk/2025/10/30/p...

Sunday thoughts about aviation impacts, far greater than cars it would seem #climateemergency #GatwickAirport #labourparty as such should we allow them to grow without a carbon cap? @heidialexander.bsky.social

How does this serve the public? Heathrow is owned by foreign investors - they'd be the main beneficiaries of any expansion. 1/3 www.ft.com/content/b4f8...

🧵 Getting sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) right isn't just about using any alternative fuel — it's about using the right ones. A new report from @unearthednews.bsky.social shows why this distinction matters more than ever. 1/5 unearthed.greenpeace.org/2026/04/10/u...

We are pleased to publish our annual report for 2025 🎉 Take a look at our work advocating for stronger policy, holding industry and government to account, and supporting communities affected by airport expansion and flight path changes. www.aef.org.uk/2026/04/09/a...

AEF signed this letter as we believe that weakening the EU ETS will only further strengthen aviation’s dependence on fossil fuels. The ETS is there to help transition the industry away from kerosene and towards a more sustainable business model. www.transportenvironment.org/articles/20-...

Heathrow expansion means more planes, more flight paths and more noise. Over 2 million people could face increased aircraft noise if a 3rd runway is built and many communities are unaware their daily environment could be about to change forever. www.aef.org.uk/2025/11/26/a...

What connects a 'waste' feedstock for alternative jet fuel with deforestation in Brazil? 🧵 1/4 unearthed.greenpeace.org/2026/04/10/u...

Heathrow already carries £17.6bn in debt, and expansion means stacking billions more risk onto an overstretched balance sheet. Expansion isn’t “investment” — it’s a balance-sheet gamble with passengers footing the bill. #NoThirdRunway

Stop touristification! 🛑 Over tourism, not only kicks residents out of their homes, turning cities into tourist playgrounds, but also relies on air traffic and airport expansion. Less tourism, less planes 👉 more homes, a better life! #HAD2026 #RedLinesForAirports

Should all contrails be avoided? A new study argues it’s less effective to avoid all contrail formation, and instead, action should be taken to target the percentage of flights that are expected to cause significant amounts of warming contrails. 1/3 www.greenairnews.com?p=8724

Campaign group @schipholwatch.nl's court victory: the Dutch court has ruled that “the government has structurally ignored the legal protection of local residents and replaced it with informal agreements that primarily served the aviation sector.” 1/2 schipholwatch.nl/2026/03/11/r...

Using plants and crops for fuel feedstocks is inefficient and risks indirect land-use change. Tweaking the SAF Mandate to allow more biomass feedstocks is a bad idea, for many reasons. We set them all out in our consultation response. www.aef.org.uk/2026/03/03/g...

New analysis on the "small error" in aviation modelling announced by the Secretary of State of Transport, @heidialexander.bsky.social last week. Spoiler: 4MtCO2 is not small. Read our full analysis below 👀 www.aef.org.uk/2026/03/03/a...

Important new report by @carbonmarketwatch.bsky.social looking at how oil majors infiltrate the voluntary carbon market’s regulatory bodies to soften rules and delay change. bsky.app/profile/carb...

As Irish Gov plans to lift Dublin Airport's passenger cap, @friends-earth.bsky.social speaks out: "Clean air and a safe climate are legal obligations, not optional extras,” this moves us toward more pollution & away from our climate targets. 1/2 dublinpeople.com/news/dublin/...

Another report warning that aviation will not decarbonise without reducing air traffic 🛬 📉 Even under optimistic efficiency scenarios, alternative aviation fuels will not be available in sufficient quantities to fully replace fossil kerosene in time. www.futura-sciences.com/en/decarboni...

Airlines including Air France and Accor to pay bond penalty after missing climate goals. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Green groups including @friends-earth.bsky.social and @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social are urging the @thecccuk.bsky.social to make it clear that airport expansion is not compatible with climate goals in its upcoming advice to the government on the ANPS. friendsoftheearth.uk/latest/green...

New report from @EUEnvironment: Europe’s aviation sector now accounts for 13.1% of all transport emissions, and climbing faster than any other transport sector. “The aviation sector’s emissions trajectory is unsustainable,” the EEA warns. aircargoweek.com/eu-report-is...

A shaky foundation? Two pillars of the Government’s growth plans are in conflict: airport expansion & housing 🏗️ Both Thamesmead and Crews Hill in Enfield - two developments shortlisted by the government's New Towns Taskforce - sit beneath flight paths. 1/2 www.mylondon.news/news/north-l...

The CAA’s decision to ask airlines and booking sites selling UK flights to provide travel emissions data to consumers within the next 15 months is a welcome move. 1/3 travelweekly.co.uk/in-depth/caa...

Noise standards allow bigger, heavier planes to make proportionately more noise. A flight cap at Schiphol airport was introduced to reduce noise pollution. However, the airport still expects passenger growth as airlines switch to using bigger planes. www.businesstravelnewseurope.com/Air-Travel/A...

Singapore’s Government has set a levy for all passengers to fund SAF. 1/2 www.independent.co.uk/news/singapo...

Private jet travel has soared to record highs and so has public support for fairly taxing them. Applying carbon pricing to jets would also raise significant revenue for climate action and a just transition. carbonmarketwatch.org/2026/02/12/l...

New briefing from the SASHA Coalition on how to commercialise zero carbon emission aviation through introducing policies. This includes hydrogen and electric planes 🤓 www.sashacoalition.org/leading-the-...

New UK gov data: 2.36% of 2025 aviation fuel was eligible SAF, above the 2% mandate. However, 91% of the claimed SAF is still to be certified, so the full picture remains unclear. www.gov.uk/government/s...

AEF has signed a letter, alongside other aviation campaign groups, calling for crop-based fuels to remain excluded from the UK’s Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) Mandate. Allowing these fuels in would undermine the mandate’s sustainability goals. www.aef.org.uk/2026/02/11/k...

Does this add up? Fuji Film participates in a so-called fry-to-fly scheme promoting the idea that a portion of fried food can meaningfully contribute to the fuel needed to take a flight. 1/2 markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/...

How a Texas refinery turns Amazon-destroying cattle into 'green' jet fuel www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

New study: Supersonic aircraft high-altitude NOx emissions could harm stratospheric ozone AND significantly impact surface air pollution—potentially worse than regular planes per unit of NOx emitted. Another reason to keep flights subsonic? www.nature.com/articles/s41...

4 stories in the @irishtimes.com highlight the crazy approach to climate action by the government. 3 articles detailing the heavy financial & social cost of climate breakdown, and 1 where the govt celebrates increasing climate emissions for the airport by lifting the passenger cap. 🤯 #SpeirGorm

Domestic tourism falls £1.8bn in a year - is bad policy to blame? 1/3 www.thetimes.com/business/com....

AEF opposes the inclusion of biofuels from the UK SAF mandate. They offer negligible emission savings and put pressure on food security and biodiversity. bsky.app/profile/tran...

New study: the @UK_CAA conducted a study on the impacts of carbon labelling for flights on consumer behaviour, with interesting results. 1/4 www.gov.uk/government/p...

Are communities being steamrolled? Looking at the raft of consultations the Government and the CAA released over Christmas, you would be hard pressed to say no. The proposals endanger the public’s right to have an input on how they are overflown. www.aef.org.uk/2026/02/04/c...

UK aviation decarbonisation relies heavily on SAFs, but the Whitehead Review proposed another policy pillar: Greenhouse gas removals (GGRs). Matt Finch of EcoMatters outlines what this policy could look like: www.aef.org.uk/2026/01/29/c...

AEF is supporting @protectourwinters.bsky.social campaign to make low-carbon travel the easiest way to reach the outdoors. 🚆🌍 Add your signature to strengthen the case to policymakers for removing barriers and making clean, fair travel the norm 👇👇 form.typeform.com/to/MNg3cvXd#...

AEF thinks there's no place for crop-based biofuels in the UK SAF mandate, + this article from @OurWorldInData shows just one of the reasons - based on the current mix of biofuel crops grown, you’d need between three and six times the area of Germany. ourworldindata.org/biofuels-dem...

Heathrow expansion plans "based on assumptions about traveller behaviour, airline economics and capacity at other London airports that were more than ten years out of date, and...project is unlikely to be affordable" www.thetimes.com/business/com...

Is aviation borrowing from the car lobby’s playbook? Politico reports that all of the green initiatives designed to keep aviation decarbonisation on track are under attack, including the SAF mandate. www.politico.eu/article/avia...

"It is increasingly evident that our nation’s national security interests rely on moving further and faster towards net zero, to halt climate change and the breaching of dangerous tipping points”, says ECIU's Gareth Redmond-King eciu.net/media/press-...

When will the polluter start paying in full for the pollution? @InfluenceMap pinpoints that lobbying to delay the EU Emissions Trading System started nearly 20 years ago, in 2007. Several airlines have also backtracked initial support. influencemap.org/briefing/The...

We’re half way through the hearing into our legal challenge on Gatwick Airport expansion – and the govt has made a partial concession on one of our grounds: noise. We’re pleased we have secured better protection for local people on this at least. The case continues. www.gacc.org.uk/resources/GA...

A new report from @transportenvironment.org finds that flights at night and flight in winter/autumn produce disproportionate warming contrails, offering mitigation opportunities as these periods have lower traffic. www.transportenvironment.org/articles/sca...