The 2nd day of #AviAction starts with a keynote: Solidarity Beyond Borders: Targeting European institutions involved in destructive airport projects worldwide.
With representatives of Filipino organisations speaking about a massive airport complex in the Bulacan province. 🧵🔽
The construction for a massive airport and airport city complex, an ‘aerotropolis’, in the Bulacan province, Manila Bay in the Philippines is underway.
The aerotropolis, which is the most expensive infrastructure project to date in the Philippines, is projected to triple the capacity of the existing main Manila airport.
Present and future social and environmental impacts on fishing communities and coastal ecosystems have triggered a powerful movement of community groups and organisations to resist to this disastrous project at local and international level.
In this session, we are hearing from representatives of fisherfolk groups, AGHAM and Kalikasan People’s Network for the Environment about their stories of resistance and experiences of struggle that can be replicated elsewhere.
ICAO's net-zero target does not include interim targets until 2050, but if aviation continues to grow as expected, it will have used up its fair share of the remaining emissions budget well before 2050. 3/9
Unveiled: The UN aviation agency (@icao) is captured by corporate interests 📈🤑!
Right in time for #ICAOA41 a new report by @InfluenceMap reveals how corporate interests influence the global climate policy at the UN agency for aviation.
Why is this so concerning?
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.@icao has some serious and concerning transparency issues:
🤐 Non-disclosure agreements for delegates to join closed-door meetings
🔒 secret climate negotiations
🚫 media bans for key climate meetings
What is @StayGroundedNet, who are our members and why do we struggle against aviation?
Our campaigner Anne Kretzschmar's opening statement at today's press conference before the opening of our #AviAction conference. 1/4
Why is #AviAction needed?
What happened - and what did not happen - since our last #Degrowth of Aviation conference 2019 in Barcelona: raising awareness, but aviation remains untaxed, received huge Covid bailouts and it's still growing, after a short drop due to the pandemic. 2/4
What is @icao, the UN body for civil aviation, doing to reduce the industry's emissions?
Nothing, but follow the industry's lobbying. Also during their current Assembly #ICAOA41, going on at the moment in Montreal. 3/4
5⃣ things everyone needs to know about aviation and the climate – what science says.
The institute @ISAE_officiel has together with external experts summarised the scientific literature on aviation, its climate impact and ways forward: isae-supaero.fr/en/aviation-an…
@ISAE_officiel: "If we consider all the effects (CO2 and non-CO2), commercial aviation accounted for 5.1% of the climate impact over the 2000-2018. Period."
2⃣ Aviation's non-CO2 effects
@ISAE_officiel: "Specific strategies for the reduction of non-CO2 effects provide a major lever for limiting aviation’s climate impact. Due to the short lifetime of non-CO2 effects, these strategies can be effective quite quickly."
The EU has taken several decisions on air transport this week - and failed to bring it on track for 1.5 degrees.
We need pressure to get the EU to do more! #Thread 🧵 1/
June 24
🇪🇺 reveals new Alliance for Zero Emission Aviation to “make hydrogen-powered & electric aircraft a reality” – even the industry itself acknowledges: options won’t be viable until it's too late - 2035-40 at best - & will only fly a few hundred km stay-grounded.org/greenwashing/#… 2/
June 27- #Fitfor55 aviation package: Transport MEPs set impossible targets for using 85% fossil fuel substitutes #SAFs for ✈️ by 2050.
IATA targets for substituting even 5-10% fossil kerosene have NEVER been met since they started to set targets in 2008! europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-…
What are the injustices fuelled by our fossil-based mobility and economic system – and what does climate justice mean in this context?
A thread 🔽
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The enormous global injustice of the climate crisis:
The countries of the Global North are responsible for 92% of climate-damaging emissions beyond the safe planetary limit of 350 ppm CO2. The Global South is responsible for just 8%, as a 2020 study by @jasonhickel has shown. 2/
#ClimateInjustice means (amongst other things) that communities that have contributed least to the climate crisis are already suffering most from its consequences. But #ClimateJustice must be much more than sharing efforts to reduce emissions and financing adaptation.
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