Here’s why… The remaining global CO2 emissions budget, in 2022, for an 83% chance of holding warming to 1.7ºC was, according to the IPCC, 350 gigatonnes (Gt). [1] Aviation’s share of this global total CO2 budget is 2.5%, or 8.75 Gt. [2] Australian aviation, in turn, has a 2.7% share […]

On 10 September 2024 federal aviation minister Catherine King gave Melbourne Airport the go-ahead to build a third runway. Eighteen months earlier,  on 10 February 2023, Melbourne Airport’s owner, Australia Pacific Airports Melbourne (APAM) submitted its draft Third Runway Major Development Plan to the Minister, for her approval.  The federal […]

It’s time to expose the layers of aviation industry greenwash First published at Climate Code Red on 19 November 2024. Subsequently published at Pearls & Irritations, and The New Daily. Qantas says it doesn’t buy political favours. But it has illegally sacked its workforce, short changed its customers, and paid […]

First published on Pearl and Irritations, 19 February 2024. Australian aviation is in the news again. Having ripped off passengers, illegally sacked workers, and impacted the health of residents under airport flight paths, the industry has now received $30m from taxpayers to manufacture “sustainable aviationfuel” (SAF). And investors and airlines […]

Would you get on a plane with a less than 50% chance of landing safely?  Too bad. Right now we’re all aboard the global aviation industry’s Net Zero climate crash flightpath.  The international fossil fuel aviation industry will meet in Melbourne for four days from 15 November at the IATA […]

Flight Free Australia (FFA) calls for the federal government to reject the reported requests by commercial aviation for billion dollar loans on the back of ongoing revenue losses, due to cancellations because flights spread the corona virus. FFA asked the government to remember that, instead of limiting flights as much […]