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Covid-19 and aviation: how should policymakers react, and plan for the future?

Mar 25 2020

Coronavirus may prove to be the biggest shock ever seen to the aviation industry. Some airports could close, while airlines are cutting services by 80% or more as a result of travel restrictions and are talking about imminent bankruptcies. Virgin …

Heathrow expansion plan ruled illegal; what’s next?

Mar 12 2020

Filed in: Airports, Climate Change, Government policy, Issues, News from the AEF

Heathrow expansion unlawful given failure to assess climate impacts, court of appeal rules

Mar 3 2020

Filed in: Airports, Climate Change, Government policy, Issues, News from the AEF, Press Releases

AEF responds to CCC call for evidence on Sixth Carbon Budget

Feb 20 2020

Filed in: Climate Change, Consultation Responses, Government policy, Issues, News from the AEF

AEF’s 2019 Annual Report is out!

Feb 18 2020

Filed in: Annual Reports, News from the AEF, Publications

Our 2019 Annual Report published today looks back on a year when declarations of climate emergency, Greta Thunberg’s refusal to fly and a growing European flight shame movement, combined to make aviation’s climate impacts the subject du jour. This saw …