15 Jul 2006

International Day against Climate Change: action at Staverton

Today I joined various other Green groups in an action organised by the Cheltenham-based Climate Change Action group, to highlight aviations' role in climate change and concerns about expansion at Gloucestershires airport at Staverton.

At a time when few now deny the urgency of addressing climate change, the rapid growth in flying threatens to throw all efforts to reduce dangerous emissions off course. We must work together to find ways of making the aviation industry reduce its social and environmental impact - this action hopes to highlight the absurdity of expanding an industry that is subsidised by £9 billion per year and generates pollution, noise, congestion – and climate change.

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