Emissions, Health, Key Issues, Noise & Health

Medical community sounds alarm over aircraft emissions

13
Sep

A new medical position paper from Germany exposes the severe health risks posed by ultrafine particles emitted from aircraft engines, contradicting the aviation industry’s claims of sustainable growth. These particles penetrate deep into human tissue, causing oxidative stress, inflammation, and DNA damage, leading to increased rates of lung, vascular, and cancer diseases near airports. Concentrations […]

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Statistics

Third Party Risks: a crash

11
Jun

Third party risks: that’s why WVB joined UECNA In October 1992 a cargo plane crashed in a flat building in Amsterdam-Bijlmermeer. The result was that more than 40 people died in their houses, the so called third party risks. This catastrophe had a great impact on many people, especially those who lived in the area where […]

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Statistics

Some facts and history about Orly

11
Jun

By Evelyne Bourner at the 50th anniversary of UECNA on 20 October 2018 In the sixties the epic of the beautiful years of aviation reached its peak among the general public. Mermoz, Saint Exupéry and the myth of Aéropostale were still present in the minds and popular culture, as well as the exploits of the […]

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Emissions, Fact Finding

Aviation & Hydrogen

11
Jun

All the information summarized below is the result of the compilation of numerous international studies aimed at understanding what can really be expected from hydrogen to reduce emissions from air transport. Until September 2020, we only talked about biomass as an alternative fuel. Then Airbus announced: we are going for future hydrogen-powered aircraft that have […]

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Climate

Tourism’s impact on climate change

11
Jun

On November 15 Paul M Peeters presented his doctoral thesis at Delft University of Technology (the Netherlands) about the impact of tourism on climate change and its mitigation challenges. In 2015, the global community came together in Paris and agreed on a CO2 emissions pathway to avoid a temperature anomaly of more than 2 °C above […]

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Climate

The Illusion of Green Flying

11
Jun

This article is – with courtesy of  Finance & Trade Watch, Vienna, Austria – published on our website. You can download the complete report here. Aviation: The Fastest Way to Fry the Planet Aviation is by far the mode of transport with the biggest climate impact (see DIAGRAM 2). Carbon dioxide (CO2) is only one […]

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Climate

Roadmap to decarbonising European aviation

11
Jun

Aviation is already a major and growing emitter. In Europe its emissions have doubled since 1990, and globally they could, without action, double or treble by 2050. The sector will have a substantial fuel demand well into the 2030s, 2040s and beyond, the period when our economy needs to increasingly decarbonise. This report puts forward […]

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Night flights

Threat of night flights in Geneva

11
Jun

The horror schedule of night flights In my opinion, dialogue with the Swiss Federal Office of Civil Aviation (OFAC) is one of the best reasons to support the Geneva CARPE initiative for a more democratic control of Geneva airport by the elected members of the local government of Geneva According to Annex 4 of the […]

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