Labour Climate and Environment Forum published a transport blog by Celeste Hicks from Aviation Environment Federation arguing that the UK needs a better way forward focused on scaling up the sustainable aviation sector rather than airport expansion.

Labour Climate and Environment Forum believes that tackling the climate and environment emergency is an issue of social justice and economic prosperity that should sit comfortably at the heart of the movement as a core labour value. The UK can only keep its global standing as a leader in this field if we have a strong labour movement producing the ideas and solutions needed to transition to the zero pollution, zero waste, naturally thriving world we all want to see. And only if this transition has equity, fairness and social justice at its heart will we be able to tackle the most significant long-term threat we face – climate and ecological breakdown.