Aviation Environment Federation Campaigning on aviation’s impacts, for people and the environment

Aircraft noise

Climate change

Air pollution

Biodiversity

Public health

Bringing aviation into line with net zero

When the UK’s Climate Change Act was first drafted, international aviation and shipping were left out of carbon budgets because questions about how to account for these emissions still hadn’t …

Challenging airport expansion

The CCC’s advice for aviation included recommendations on how these emissions should be accounted for as well as on the need to set targets for CO2 and non-CO2 and to …

Raising visibility of those impacted by aircraft noise

Raising visibility Noise levels at nearly all UK airports significantly exceed WHO-recommended levels today, and the issue is not confined to the congested airspace over London and the South East. …

Reducing aviation’s emissions across the globe

What do we want to see? ICAO should develop and agree mid- and long-term climate goals in line with the Paris Agreement, as well as a 1.5 degree temperature goal, …

End of era for fossil-fuelled aviation in the UK as Government legislates to cap emissions from flying internationally

Despite decades of talk from the aviation industry about tackling the sector’s climate impacts, emissions from UK aviation were higher in 2019, just before the pandemic, than ever before, and …

20th April, 2021