AEF is a UK-based organisation campaigning for aviation’s impacts on people and the environment to be brought within sustainable limits. More about the AEF
Jun 8 2018
The final version of the NPS, together with updated versions of the draft of papers and analysis that accompany it, was published on Tuesday. In a statement to the House of Commons, the Transport Secretary Chris Grayling set out the …
Apr 13 2018
On Saturday 7thApril the Government published the outcome of its call for evidence on the Aviation Strategy ‘Beyond the Horizon’. It’s not a particularly inspiring read in terms of environmental ambition. While the Government aspires for the UK to be …
Mar 23 2018
Heathrow plans beset with problems and likely to face legal challenge, concludes parliamentary committee The Transport Committee, appointed to provide the official parliamentary scrutiny of the Government’s Heathrow expansion plans, has today published its findings. The report concludes that the …
Mar 22 2018
Every five years (known as “rounds”), major airports are required to revise existing plans that identify noise impacts, and ways to manage them. The plans – Noise Action Plans (NAPs) – are drawn up for areas identified as being impacted …
Mar 8 2018
Aviation is almost completely dependent on fossil fuels, and together with agriculture and shipping is widely considered a ‘hard to decarbonise’ sector. Partly because of this, aviation has so far been given extra leeway in the setting of climate targets …