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PRESS RELEASE: Billionaire jet setters burning and flooding their way to Monaco “superyacht” show
PRESS CONTACTS: NICE, France – Scores of billionaire private jet owners are flying into Nice this week to shop for new super- and mega-yachts at the Monaco Yacht Show, an annual event in the Principality of Monaco on the French Riviera. Tax Private Jets is tracking private jet flights – and the carbon emissions attached to these flights – into Nice, where many attendees will board…
From Montpellier to Helsinki – Protests for ‘Night Trains, Not Night Planes’ in 17+ cities
On the 13th of September, people gathered in protests across more than 17 cities in Europe on the 3rd International Day for the Ban of Night Flights at Airports. But this year this initiative was broadened: the movement fighting for their right to sleep joined together with groups promoting the expansion of night trains. This way, as a red line was drawn over night flights, and a green light was…
Stop the Roissy expansion – a historical mistake!
Photo: François Brochot | Rally outside the ADP Group’s headquarters on Monday 14 September, calling for the cancellation of the Roissy expansion project and a ban on night-time flights. On Monday 14 September, members of the public, organisations and elected representatives gathered in the late afternoon outside the headquarters of the Aéroports de Paris (ADP) Group to express their opposition…
Roissy Airport: Expansion? No way!
Photo: Julien Helaine | Activists break onto the tarmac at Roissy Charles-de-Gaulle Airport to protest against the Terminal 4 project, October 3, 2020. This overview of the opposition to the expansion plans for Roissy Charles-de-Gaulle Airport was co-authored by Charlène Fleury, Audrey Boehly and Eric Lombard. It forms part of the ‘Emergency Landing’ feature in the October issue of the…
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