Category Archives: Key Issues

Capping flights

Schiphol slashes passenger numbers by 18% until end October

Posted on by Admin3342
16
Sep

In the period from mid-September to the end of October, Schiphol will reduce the number of passengers by almost ten thousand a day, because security companies ‘deliver fewer security officers than previously promised’, according to the airport. This news comes a day after airport CEO Dick Benschop resigned in order not to hinder his bosses […]

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Actions, Campaigning, Emissions, Noise & Health, Politics, Stop Pollution, Your action

16-Point program to reduce flight movements

Posted on by Admin3342
16
Aug

The German Federal Association against Aircraft Noise (BVf) has a 16-point program to flight movements. Demands on future air traffic. Since the restrictions applied during the corona pandemic were lifted or relaxed, air traffic has been trying to return to the growth path it pursued until 2019. The number of flight movements and passengers is […]

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Capping flights, Let's cap aviation, Night Flight Ban, Night flights, Noise & Health, See you in Court

Local residents of Schiphol are taking the Dutch State to court

Posted on by Admin3342
14
Jul

The residents, represented by the Right to Protection against Aircraft Nuisance (RBV), demand that the minister put an end to the serious nuisance and sleep disturbance caused by air traffic at Schiphol Airport. More than 200,000 local residents are seriously disturbed by aircraft noise every day. And more than 23,000 people are disturbed in their […]

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Capping flights, Emissions, Let's cap aviation, Stop Pollution

‘Dutch minister lies about cancer-causing emissions from aviation’

Posted on by Admin3342
10
May

Published by SchipholWatch on 9 May 2022 Recently, minister Mark Harbers (Infrastructure) has argued several times that the emission of carcinogenic substances from aircraft falls under the nondescript Aviation Act and not under stricter environmental legislation. That is an outright lie, according to SchipholWatch’s own research.

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Noise & Health, Noise Measurement

How To Introduce Performance Based Navigation

Posted on by Admin3342
05
May

Heathrow commissioned jointly with its Community Noise Forum a report about best practice in introducing Performance Based Navigation (PBN) routes. Consultants of Taylor Airey interviewed residents and community groups and have come up with a range of suggestions on community engagement, respite and much more. They also draw on examples (good and bad) from airports […]

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Noise & Health, Noise Measurement

Aviation Noise Impact Management

Posted on by Admin3342
02
Feb

Technologies, Regulations, and Societal Well-being in Europe Editors: (view affiliations) Laurent Leylekian, Alexandra Covrig & Alena Maximova This open access book Aviation Noise Impact Management provides a view into the state-of-the-art research on aviation noise and related annoyance. The book will primarily focus on the achievements of the ANIMA project (Aviation Noise Impact Management through […]

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Climate, Economics, Taxes

Aviation industry in UK will only pay for 16% of their climate damage

Posted on by Admin3342
28
Jan

In allowing airports around the country to expand, the government is letting the aviation industry off the hook for £62bn of damage to the climate, analysis out today from the New Economics Foundation (NEF) finds. The analysis calculates that the aviation industry will only pay for 16% of the emissions clean-up costs of the eight […]

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Noise & Health

Noise destroys health more than air pollution

Posted on by Admin3342
09
Oct

Heart attacks, stress, reduced immune defences… A report from l’Ademe, the French Ecological Transition Agency, shows the impressive damage to health caused by noise, particularly from cars and two-wheelers. Damage totally ignored by the authorities. Is our society finally taking the measure of the real damage caused by ambient noise? Launched on September 20 by […]

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Campaigning, Climate, Your action

Climate activists blocked truck access to DHL freight airport

Posted on by Admin3342
10
Jul

July 9, 2021, Schkeuditz. Climate justice activists blocked truck access to the German DHL freight airport Leipzig/Halle for two hours on the night of Friday 9 to Saturday 10 July. They were arrested by the police after a spontaneous demonstration around midnight and taken into custody. With the action, the activists oppose the expansion plans […]

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Campaigning, Climate, Noise & Health, Your action

German federal association calls for CO2 labels for air travel

Posted on by Admin3342
08
Jul

Responsible use of our environment presupposes that people are informed about the important effects of their actions in advance of their decisions. This also applies to the choice of a means of transport, both for vacation and business trips. At the latest with the decision of the Federal Constitutional Court on the specification of climate […]

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