Despite what the aviation industry wants us to believe, there is no technological fix which will give us clean flights in the time we have left to address the climate crisis. The only way to cut carbon from planes is by taking fewer flights.
The good news is that we can get on track for net zero by getting the people who fly most to fly a little less - and most of us don’t need to change anything at all. That’s because while half of the UK population doesn’t fly in a given year, 15% of the population are responsible for 70% of annual flights.
We campaign to cut demand among frequent flyers and private jet users, and work to make low-carbon alternatives accessible to all of us - celebrating how travelling by train and coach can be even better than taking to the skies.
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Helping almost 200 employers to offer extra time off work for flight-free travel.
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Why should ordinary people have to take the hit and lose their holiday, while the richest can keep jetting around on ultra-polluting flights?
Without policy change, flight numbers will continue to increase, pumping out huge amounts of harmful emissions, and driving us into climate chaos. So this May we’re heading to Parliament to speak to MPs face-to-face about the practical ways that our government can get flights on track for our climate goals. Will you help make sure your MP attends our event?
New year’s is a great time to make a fresh start and commit (or re-commit) to becoming more of the person you want to be. Want to do more on climate? There is no better time than right now to make a bold pledge to cut your emissions.
Airlines like British Airways and Virgin Atlantic, are misleading the public, downplaying the harm they’re causing to our climate, and pretending we can meet emissions targets without cutting back on flights. Will you join our call to end airline greenwash?
If we’re serious about our climate commitments we simply need to cut back on flying. In fact, our latest report finds that the UK won’t hit our climate targets unless we reduce flying by 36%. The good news is that there’s a way to do this without affecting most people’s holiday habits at all!
Spring has started which means it’s almost festival season. Thanks to Europe’s excellent rail network, it’s easy to reach festivals on the continent without having to fly. Here are some of our favourite European festivals, and how to get there by train.
We know that per minute and per mile, flying is the most carbon-polluting action we can take. And, with no ‘sustainable air travel’ options available, our only option for addressing the harmful impact of air travel is simply to fly less. However, this doesn't need to mean stopping traveling altogether. We are incredibly lucky in the UK that so many amazing places are accessible by train which creates significantly less carbon emissions than flying.
Happy Valentine’s day from everyone at Possible. Plenty of the most romantic getaways are accessible by train which means you can treat yourself and the one you love to a romantic trip away without undermining your commitment to climate action.
Thinking about the summer holidays? Decided to take up the Flight-free 2023 challenge? We’ve pooled together some of our favourite websites and resources for planning and booking flight-free holidays.
Has the winter cold got you daydreaming about some sun? Well don’t worry - you don’t need to fly to get away. Here are four gorgeous sunny destinations you can travel to from the UK by train:
Collectively, we all need to fly less but some people are flying a lot more than the rest of us and causing most of the environmental damage. That’s why we’re proposing a frequent flyer levy, which would be the fairest way to tax flights and the most effective way to cut emissions.
Do you want to encourage your loved ones to choose trains over planes when travelling? Not sure how to broach the subject? We’ve got you covered.
Avoiding taking flights is one of the best things we can do to reduce our environmental impact. But at the moment, only half of the UK population are aware of the climate impact of plane travel (ten times more emissions than taking the train!). By comparing flight emissions with other things we do, it’s easier to get a sense of the scale of the problem.
There is a lot to be said for staying grounded and opting for our favourite land-based travel options. Here are some of our top reasons.
Latest news…
We’ve started this year with a bang; four weeks in and we’re celebrating big wins in each one of our four mission areas.
After over a thousand of us emailed to call for climate action, the government has finally brought in a new tax on private jets!
Over 100 organisations have now signed up our Climate Perks scheme, meaning they’ll give their staff paid ‘journey days’ on top of annual leave for flight-free travel. Employers who have signed up include architects, accountants, legal firms, NGOs, the government’s own climate advisors, and more…
The vast majority of Premier League journeys can be made by coach in under four and a half hours. Yet some of the top teams are choosing to use private jets - driving up carbon emissions and threatening our progress to creating the zero carbon Britain we need. So we’re taking action to tackle football’s flight problem - will you help?
Our lawyers have just filed formal complaints about British Airways and Virgin Atlantic. They are misleading the public about their environmental actions, downplaying the harm they’re causing to our climate, and pretending they can meet emissions targets without cutting back on flights. This is slowing down progress towards a zero carbon Britain, and we’re not having it.
Our new report has found that achieving lifetime membership status of a frequent flyer programme (FFP) could require emitting more than 1,800 tonnes of greenhouse gases per person.
We all know that flying is bad for the climate - but how bad are private jets? We crunched the numbers to find out - and they’re even worse than we thought!
The government is promising zero emissions airports by 2040. They’ve forgotten one tiny thing: the 95% of emissions from the actual flights!
That’s right, along with Group for Action on Leeds Bradford Airport (GALBA), we are taking the government to court. In October 2022, with lawyers at Leigh Day, we filed for a judicial review of the “Jet Zero” strategy (its plan for aviation emissions), which the Department for Transport released in July 2022. Our legal challenges will now proceed to a joint hearing.
A quick overview of three common myths around the availability of sustainable air travel, why we call relying on technology alone ‘false solutions’, and what you can do to take meaningful action on air travel.
After an evaluation by the Centre Change and Social Transformations we know Climate Perks users are choosing lower-carbon transport for their holidays when typically they would have flown.
The government’s dangerous plans for aviation won’t do anything to bring down emissions.
The government’s long awaited ‘Jet Zero’ strategy was published. It was supposed to be a road map to decarbonising the aviation industry, but in reality it gave them the green light to continue emitting for decades to come.
Our new report with Green Gumption reviews the climate targets which the international aviation industry set itself since the year 2000.
In the scenario which reduced aviation by two thirds, 187,000 jobs were lost and 521,000 created, providing a net increase in jobs of around 337,000.
Our new research shows the potential for direct supply from solar farms to meet traction energy demand on a fully electrified Indian Railways.