Webinar No 6 Our Webinar on Noise Metrics was on March 22nd 2022. It looked at the best ways to measure aircraft noise so that it reflects the way communities hear it. Our two speakers were Nicole Porter, a leading noise expert from the UK, and Elaine Miller, a campaigning from America. Noise metrics by […]
Webinar No 5 Our first webinar in 2022 was on February 3rd. In this webinar, we showed some of the best practices for dealing with airport communities, in the hopes that others can learn from them. We had two people telling their story: Professor Paul Hooper, Manchester Metropolitan University Manfred Peter, chair of the coalition […]
Webinar No 4 At our general meeting on December 11, 2021, we had a webinar about organizing a successful campaign. There were presentations by two experienced campaigners: Florian Sperk, who led the campaign which stopped a new runway at Munich Airport, John Stewart, who played a central role in defeating plans for a third runway […]
Webinar No 15 March 4, 2024 To reduce air noise pollution from Schiphol Airport the number of flights has to go down. The European Union requires that the so called Balanced Approach procedure must be used when an EU member state wishes to implement noise-related operating restrictions on an airport with more than 50,000 aircraft […]
Webinar No 13 EANS is a pure form of citizen science is developed by Frankfurt residents, and is now used by communities at over 50 airports worldwide. An example: The recording of this webinar The presentation slides The chat during the webinar
Webinar No 8 UECNA Board Member Wouter Looman spoke about strategies to influence local, regional and national politicians. Are you being heard by the policy makers? Do you know all the examples where citizens are in dialogue with their governments? Has the relationship between the government, research agencies and the aviation sector ever been exposed? […]
Roberto My name is Roberto Barcaroli, I am the spokesperson for the Committee for the Reduction of the Environmental Impact of Ciampino Airport (CRIAAC).We are a committee of citizens of Ciampino, Rome and Marino who, since 2005, have been fighting for the reduction of noise and air pollution produced by the excessive number of flights […]
Theirs is the remarkable story of turning a small, rural campaign into one of the biggest environmental movements in Europe. Whether you or not you support their cause, the way the Nantes community built up their campaign has lessons for campaigners, whatever their issue, the world over.
The result was a victory for the very impressive campaign which brought together climate activists, led by Young Friends of the Earth Bavaria, with local residents. Their activities ranged from a spectacular banner drop by Plane Stupid Germany (right) to moving candle-lit church services. They also commissioned work from consultants give them solid economic arguments […]
