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Solidarity Ten supporters of Letzte Generation who blocked the taxiway of Hamburg Airport in 2023 protesting the government's climate inaction were fined with 400 thousand euros in damages, and are threatened with jail if they protest against the Lufthansa group again.

While common people who fight for everyone’s future are repressed and made to pay thousands of euros, the German government continues to reward the aviation industry with millions in subsidies, and cuting money for public transport. The German government’s priorities are clear: keep profits flowing for airlines, thus fuelling climate breakdown and leaving people to suffer with floods, heatwaves and food scarcity.

Damages? make the airlines pay. The idea of filing for damages is good, just not by billing common people. Air traffic should be cut to a bare minimum and airlines made to pay for their role in climate breakdown, inequality, pollution, land theft and biodiversity loss. The money raised would be enough for providing fair, affordable and grounded transport for all. And that way no one would need to glue themselves to the tarmac ever again.

But in the meantime, make sure to support the people who dare to challenge this deadly industry.

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Let's stand together and strengthen the movement to challenge aviation and make airlines pay for THEIR incessant damages to people and the planet 🚨

#RedLinesForAirports #Solidarity

Heathrow airport’s £33bn third runway plan chosen by government Scheme includes plan to move the M25 and could mean up to 760 more planes in the skies around London every day

More tarmac, more emissions, more destruction 💀

Heathrow 3rd runway is a climate clime, when what we need is to draw #RedLinesForAirports and drastically cut air traffic!

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

INTERNATIONAL PYJAMA PARTY FOR NIGHT TRAINS December 12th 19 GMT, 20 CET, 21 EET JOIN US!

International Pyjama Party for Night Trains ✨🚆

We need to stop aviation and night trains are the fair, connected, grounded alternative.

On 12 Dec people will dance in their PJs to put night trains back on track.

👉 Join or organise a mobilisation: pyjama-party.back-on-track.eu

Photos of members of Stay Grounded supporters and members of the Stay Grounded network campaigning for climate justice across the world with demonstrations, speeches, and workshops.

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Over the past year, neighbourhood council member Dirk Breedveld and SchipholWatch chair Alfred Blokhuizen have been repeatedly threatened online because they stand up for something fundamental: the right to a healthy living environment and the right to speak out against the harmful impact of the aviation industry. This week, those threats reached a terrifying new level. On Wednesday night, an explosive device was thrown at Breedveld’s home. An act not only meant to intimidate one person, but to strike fear into an entire movement. This attack does not stand on its own. It is the result of a political and media culture in which activists are deliberately portrayed as extremists, naïve idealists or enemies of the economic status quo. Years of suspicion, character assassination and repeated simplistic counter-frames have created a climate in which violence against citizens who stand up for climate justice suddenly seems imaginable. And let’s be clear: this is also the result of a ruthless aviation lobby that repeatedly spreads disinformation, withholds reports, and encourages politicians to do the same.

And this week, there was silence. Far too much silence. No condemnation. Political parties said nothing. Media looked the other way. Not a single leader stood up to say: this is unacceptable, this concerns all of us. We demand an unequivocal, publicly stated condemnation of this attack by all political parties, media and societal institutions. We call for a structural boycott of the aviation lobby by all political parties, so that policy once again serves people, not corporate interests. We stand shoulder to shoulder with Alfred Blokhuizen and with VVD member Dirk Breedveld. We will not be intimidated. We will not be divided. If you target one activist, you target all of us. We are the many — and we are here to stay.

We stand in full solidarity: if you target one of us, you target all of us. We are more than a few — and we will not be intimidated.

Let’s draw a red line:
🟥 against violence targeting activists
🟥 against airport expansion

#RedLinesForAirports #Solidarity

Threats and even an explosive attack have targeted activists who speak out against airport expansion.

This is part of a political and media culture that seeks to delegitimise climate activism, while powerful aviation lobbies spread disinformation and silence dissent. 1/2

Flight from reality: sustainable aviation, Jet Zero, and the technofix This paper argues that rising aviation emissions, which are disproportionally driven by the wealthy, pose a serious threat to climate goals. Using the UK’s Jet Zero strategy as a case study, it exp...

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The full paper is here - and it’s a damning indictment of business-as-usual. Read it, share it, and call out every politician hiding behind false solutions:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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We have the real solutions: end fossil fuel subsidies, ban private jets, shift short-haul flights to trains, and create good jobs in sustainable mobility. No more fantasies. Just transition, not jet-delusion.

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The truth is simple: to stay below 1.5°C, aviation must shrink, not grow. Frequent flyers must finally be held accountable. Governments must stop bankrolling the industry and invest in rail, public transport, and communities instead.

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This whole strategy is one thing: delay. Delay real climate action. Delay justice. Delay the shift we need towards demand reduction, fair taxation, night trains, and a just transition for workers.

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Offsets? A scam. They don’t reduce emissions - they outsource responsibility to communities in the Global South whose forests and land get stolen so the wealthy can keep boarding flights.

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SAFs? Mostly greenwashing. Land-grabbing crops, deforestation, fake “used cooking oil,” sky-high energy use. Even the industry admits it can’t scale. SAF is just a PR shield for expansion.

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Meanwhile, the poorest fly the least yet face the worst impacts - droughts, floods, crop failures. This sector is engineered for inequality. 1% of people cause half of aviation emissions. That’s violence.

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Britain’s Jet Zero plan is a case study in climate injustice: techno-fantasies for the wealthy, climate chaos for everyone else. Even the government’s own data shows aviation emissions rising for decades.

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The evidence is brutal: electric planes, hydrogen, SAF, carbon capture, offsets - none of it works at the scale needed. These “solutions” are just cover for endless growth and airport expansion. A smokescreen for profit.

A new academic paper just confirmed what frontline communities have been shouting for decades: aviation’s “green” promises are a lie. The industry is torching the planet so the rich can keep flying.

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As EU leaders posture at COP30, they keep protecting corporate polluters at home. This is a political choice, not an accident.

We demand: end fossil fuel tax exemptions now, make polluters pay, and fund a just transition.

But instead of ending these giveaways, they left in place the 20-year-old exemptions that already gift nearly €47 billion every year to the most polluting sectors. Aviation alone escapes €21.3 billion. Money that should fund trains, renewables, and climate resilience.

Last week EU finance ministers dodged a catastrophe - but still chose climate cowardice.

Denmark proposed to the EU Governments that a tax on jet fuel would be off the table until 2035. Thankfully it didn't pass.
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💬Yesterday the Council discussed once again the revision to the Energy Taxation Directive. Member States failed to reach a compromise, luckily.

📣The current Council compromise proposal is not up to the job.

www.bloomassociation.org/en/energy-ta...

Fossil fuel lobbyists outnumber all Cop30 delegations except Brazil, report says One in every 25 participants at 2025 UN climate summit is a fossil fuel lobbyist, according to Kick Big Polluters Out

We need real people-powered climate solutions, not so-called climate conferences that keep fossil profits flowing #KickBigPollutersOut
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

New report shows how arguments about the need to expand aviation for jobs and the economy are bullshit.

What we need is a drastic reduction of aviation and to stop all airport expansion, if want a liveable future.

#RedLinesForAirports

🌍 What do global cities such as Amsterdam, Stockholm and Edinburgh all have in common?

These major cities have ALL banned fossil fuel adverts. These ads have massive climate and health impacts, all while targeting politically influential decision makers.

“Each village formed a countermeasure committee; we staged one-person protests and candlelight rallies. For years we halted our livelihoods, chased after every so-called briefing and public hearing to lodge objections, and traveled to Jeju City, Sejong, and Seoul to hold demonstrations and sit-ins—ten years of such days.” —Emergency Island-Wide Council to Block the Forced Push for Jeju’s Second Airport

But the resistance is not giving up and the people of Jeju are renewing their call: scrap the second airport and protect Jeju’s future.

We stand in solidarity with Jeju’s farmers and residents defending their island against destructive aviation expansion.

10 Years of struggle against Jeju Airport "We will fight to the end." #RedLinesForAirports

For 10 years, farmers and people from all walks of life have continuously mobilised to stop the project of a second airport in Jeju island, in South Korea.

Despite falling passenger numbers, growing ecological damage and overwhelming local opposition, the government continues to push the project.

A good, short 🧵, with the first post containing a link is a Stay Grounded webpage with 8 related fact sheets.

See also this breaking (Nov. 10) news on the topic: "Airlines' green claims brought back to earth by the EU":
www.lexology.com/library/deta...

🔴 A Climate Law for Polluters, Confirmed.

Europe’s new 2040 #ClimateTarget locks in loopholes, not real climate action.

Offsets, carbon removals, and review clauses won’t phase out fossil fuels — they just buy time for polluters.

Read our statement 👇
www.realzeroeurope.org/resources/pr...

We can’t let the aviation industry write its own climate story.

Dive into the Stay Grounded Greenwashing Fact Sheets to uncover the truth behind the myths and share them to stop the lies.

👉 stay-grounded.org/greenwashing...

“Technology will fix it, aviation can keep growing!”

But no technology can make flying compatible with climate goals. Efficiency gains are wiped out by growth, and so-called sustainable fuels have massive land, resource, and justice impacts.