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SUMMARY:Webinar: Choosing your next holiday
DESCRIPTION:A National Sustainability Festival 2025/Flight Free Australia online discussion focussing on changing attitudes to tourism\, moderated by Flight Free Australia’s Alex Mungall\, with panellists:\n\nTeresa and Dennis\, grounded travellers from Germany to Australia.\nKeep in touch with them at https://humantravelstories.com\,\nYannic Kuna\, degrowth advocate and researcher and member of Degrowth Network Australia.\nCheckout his info sheet Degrowth Tourism Down Under \,\nJames Higham\, distinguished professor at Griffith University’s Department of Tourism\, Sport and Hotel Management.\nRead his recent “Drivers of global tourism carbon emissions” paper\, and\nMark Carter from Flight Free Australia.\n\n\nRecorded Tuesday 11 February 2025 \nYou can watch a recording of the webinar here.
URL:https://flightfree.net.au/event/webinar-choosing-your-next-holiday/
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SUMMARY:Webinar: Shannon\, Theo and Rosa’s excellent adventure
DESCRIPTION:Travelling from the UK to Oz — and back — without costing the earth. \nFlight Free Australia and the National Sustainability Festival presents a free online event exploring the future of travel in the climate emergency.\nYou can watch a recording of the webinar here.\nGuests Shannon Coggins\, Theo Simon and their daughter Rosa share their recent four month overland journey from the UK to Oz\, as part of a broader conversation around low-carbon and slow travel possibilities across Australia and the planet.\n\nThe conversation includes a debunking of the emissions reduction possibilities of the federal governments proposed new Sustainable Aviation Fuel industry.\n\nWith emissions free flight a long way off\, how can we reconfigure travel culture and infrastructure to avoid flying?
URL:https://flightfree.net.au/event/shannon-theo-and-rosas-excellent-adventure/
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SUMMARY:Webinar: Flight cancelled
DESCRIPTION:A NATIONAL SUSTAINABLE LIVING FESTIVAL 2021 EVENT \nHow choosing to not fly can get your climate emergency response off the ground\n\n\n…a free online panel discussion\n• on the challenging decision to pledge to stay grounded\,\n• on how empowering that decision can be for personal safe climate action\, and\n• how pledging passion can turn into a commitment to the political action necessary for an effective climate emergency response. \n\n\n> REGISTER HERE\n\n\nPANELLISTS\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMargaret Klein Salamon PhD\n \nMargaret is a clinical psychologist turned climate activist whose work helps people to face the deeply frightening\, painful truths of the climate emergency and transform their despair into effective action. She is the founder and President of the Board of The Climate Mobilization\, which advocates an all-hands-on-deck\, whole society mobilization to protect humanity and the living world from climate catastrophe. She is the author of “Facing the Climate Emergency: How to Transform Yourself with Climate Truth”\, a radical self-help guide for the climate emergency. FacingTheClimateEmergency.com.\n\nProfessor David A. Hood AM\n\nDavid is Inaugural Beyond Zero Emissions fellow and Engineering Champion\, a Flight Free pledger and civil and environmental engineer for more than 35 years. \n\nCharlie Mgee\n•\n\nCharlie is a permaculture advocate\, musician\, founder of West Australian “permaculture funk” band Formidable Vegetable\, and a Flight Free pledger.\n\nUma Dingemans\n•\n \nUma is a musician and first year Arts student at the University of Melbourne\, hailing from Central Victoria. During 2020 Uma joined the Flight Free Oz pledge and created a petition against Qantas’ ‘Nowhere Flights’.
URL:https://flightfree.net.au/event/webinar-flight-cancelled/
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SUMMARY:Webinar: Net zero false solutions
DESCRIPTION:Biomass\, BECCS & the Commercialisation of Nature\nThe first in a two-part webinar series providing an overview of false climate solutions promoted under the banner of net-zero emissions.\nThis webinar series aims to give a brief overview of some of the false solutions being promoted under the banner of ‘net zero’. This first webinar will focus on Bioenergy\, a specific type of geoengineering known as Bioenergy\, Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS)\, Nature-Based Solutions and Net-Zero Aviation. \nSpeakers\n\nKirtana Chandrasekaran\, Friends of the Earth International\nAlmuth Ernsting\, Biofuelwatch\nCoraina de la Plaza\, Global Forest Coalition\nMagdalena Heuwieser\, Stay Grounded\n\nThe webinar will last 90 minutes\, with 15 minutes for each topic and 30 minutes for Q&A. \nDo come along if you are interested in learning more about false solutions and the dangers they pose to the fight for climate justice. A recording will be made available so if you can no longer attend\, don’t worry!
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ORGANIZER;CN="UK Youth Climate Coalition":MAILTO:hello@ukycc.com
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SUMMARY:Webinar: Taxes or Limits? 
DESCRIPTION:Measures to reduce air traffic in a just way\n\n\n\nThis webinar is intended as a space of strategic discussion for campaigners and groups working on aviation: Should our campaigns focus on reducing demand through higher prices for aviation by taxing kerosene\, tickets\, or frequent flyers? Or should we rather push for limits to short haul flights\, airport capacity\, or even personal flight contingents? Or both?\nWe want discuss pro’s and con’s of taxes and limits\, taking into account the implications from a justice perspective\, the effects on the climate\, and the feasibility of the measures. Which demands are currently\, in the Covid-19 situation\, the most viable ones?\nAfter some short inputs\, there will be time for the participant’s experiences and perspectives. In case you want to prepare\, find summaries of taxes and limits on flights in the report “Degrowth of Aviation“. \n\nSpeakers\n\n\nAlethea Warrington\, Possible\nAnne Kretzschmar\, Stay Grounded\nBill Hemmings\, aviation consultant\nJo Dardenne\, Transport & Environment\nother speakers to be confirmed\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat are the implications from a justice perspective?\nPrice instruments like kerosene and ticket taxes can lead to fewer people being able to afford flying\, while the wealthy can continue with their jet-setting habits. At the same time\, there’s a big tax injustice when comparing different modes of transport\, with aviation receiving high indirect subsidies through tax exemptions. There’s also the question of global justice\, effects on the Global South\, and scales where it could be implemented. \nWhat are the effects on the climate?\nA kerosene tax could reduce the privileges of aviation – but it depends on how high it is in order to have a real effect on demand. Banning short-haul flights doesn’t have a high climate impact\, with long haul flights consuming most emissions – but it might help shifting mindsets and therefore reduce aviation on the longer run. This might be similar with shutting down regional airports. \nWhat is the feasibility of the measures?\nA kerosene tax has been demanded for decades\, but the aviation lobby has so far succeeded in spreading the lie that this is illegal. In the EU\, a kerosene tax might be difficult to achieve on an EU level\, but bilateral agreements could be enforced. Ticket taxes are in place in many countries\, but too low – they could be raised and combined with a kerosene tax or/and other measures. The feasibility of a frequent flyer levy or air miles levy is still being researched. Moratoria on airports are mostly fought through on a local level – is it possible at bigger scales? Which laws would allow for limits of airports or flights? Which allow for a modal shift to the railway? \nWhat is currently\, in the Covid-19 situation\, the most effective demand?\nIf tax-payer’s money saved the aviation industry\, then the industry has to start paying taxes – this demand could work for a public campaign. Others argue that taxes on the industry would hurt the industry too much in times of crisis\, which is why such measures are even harder to achieve than before. The expansion of airport infrastructure is likely to be delayed for years – does it make sense to campaign on limits to airports\, or is it a reason to not campaign on it? Has the experience of being grounded during Covid-19 possibly changed the public perception of the importance of flights – could limits on flights be easier to achieve now?
URL:https://flightfree.net.au/event/webinar-taxes-or-limits/
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