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Children's Rights Over Flights
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We want to see children’s rights prioritized above polluting flights. Every sector needs to play its part in tackling climate change, including aviation. Increasing flights is reckless in the face of the climate emergency.
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Children's Rights Over Flights @rightoverflight.bsky.social · Feb 12
Sign our petition to keep the passenger cap at Dublin Airport to protect our climate and our children's futures. my.uplift.ie/petitions/ke...
Keep the Dublin Airport Passenger Cap - Help protect children from harm
I've just signed this petition to keep the passenger cap at Dublin Airport to protect our climate and our children's futures. Will you sign too?
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Minister O'Brien: "most critical issue of our time–reducing emissions to mitigate the worst effects of climate change...act decisively today to prevent far greater harm tomorrow"

We await Minister O'Brien acting on Minister O'Brien's strong call to action #KeepTheCap
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Demand Children's rights are prioritised over endless flights. Sign the petition.
November 23, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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We marched as part of the climate demo in Dublin on Sat 15th Nov, with hundreds of others. We sent a clear message, during COP, that all sectors, including aviation, need to play their part in a safer climate future. More in our latest newsletter: childrensrightsoverflights.ie/2025/11/18/a...
Montage of people at demonstration with climate placards, including one reading "Kids need more Kites less Flights"
November 18, 2025 at 1:02 AM
rightoverflight.bsky.social
😮We don't recall Ireland's high outbound tourism being acknowledged when 'economic' arguments were being used for our Government to bypass planning processes on the Dublin Airport Cap, and push for expansion of polluting aviation. Do you?

www.transportenvironment.org/articles/eco...
November 14, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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It’s time to stop promoting pollution on London’s transport system.

👉 To learn more: badverts.org/fossil-ads

👉 Ask the Mayor to take action: actionnetwork.org/letters/time...

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Time to end adverts for polluting products on Transport for London sites
I've written to the London Mayor calling for an end to advertising for polluting products on Transport for London sites. You can email the Mayor here: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/time-to-end-ad...
actionnetwork.org
November 10, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
Twenty-one European airlines agree to modify their practices regarding environmental claims following dialogue with the Commission and national consumer protection authorities
Twenty-one airlines have committed to change their practices regarding environmental claims that were considered misleading by the Consumer Protection Cooperation (CPC) Network. This follows a dialogu
ec.europa.eu
November 10, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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irishdocsenv.bsky.social
Only about 10% of the world's population has ever flown. Yet, the aviation industry is responsible for roughly 2–4% of global CO₂ emissions. Does that seem fair?

Why should our flights around the world be subsidised and encouraged at such a cost to the planet?

This must change.
Opinion: Expanding Dublin Airport now would fly in the face of climate reality
Letting various aviation expenses to go untaxed has made air travel artificially cheap despite its massive drain on the environment, writes Aoife O’Leary.
www.thejournal.ie
November 7, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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You pay fuel duty. Why don’t billionaires?

This week, we launched WeWingAnyCar.com to help you qualify for the same tax breaks that private jets get.

Because tax loopholes shouldn’t just be for billionaires.

They’re for everyone.
November 6, 2025 at 6:02 PM
rightoverflight.bsky.social
Proud to be part of Fite Fuaite, by Project Dandelion.

50 squares from climate and nature groups around Ireland, interwoven - fite fuaite, sending solidarity to #COP30.
Our square is top row, third from left - close up below. 🪡

www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

#COP30 #EndFossilPower
Embroidered square with a child and a woman holding the earth, saying "Children's Rights Not More Flights" Irish Times article "Quilt woven by Irish groups sends message of solidarity to Cop30 climate summit, with image of people holding a quilt
November 5, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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✈️ 🇮🇪 Ireland has a climate policy gap: aviation.
 
Our new report highlights the aviation industry’s free passes on climate and how the Irish gov should lead on cutting aviation emissions int'ly and at home.

https://www.opportunitygreen.org/publication-closing-irelands-aviation-climate-gap

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Closing Ireland’s aviation climate gap — Opportunity Green
In 2026, Ireland assumes the Presidency of the Council of the EU. This report examines how the country can place climate action at the heart of its leadership while generating significant revenue through introducing a fair air travel levy and expanding the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) to inc
www.opportunitygreen.org
November 3, 2025 at 9:02 AM
rightoverflight.bsky.social
Article in @irishtimes.com highlighting the greenwashing airlines persist with, despite multiple rulings from advertising standards authorities. Flying is *not sustainable*, and has *no prospects* of becoming sustainable in the timeframe of the climate crisis. www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
Airlines are never going to tell us that flying is not sustainable
Messaging about ‘green fares’ or ‘responsible’ aviation is often misleading
www.irishtimes.com
November 3, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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Children's Rights Over Flights is a signatory to this complaint by the climate movement in Ireland re lack of questions on climate in the Presidential debates www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
RTÉ receives formal complaint over ‘exclusion’ of climate issues from presidential debates
Letter signed by academics, NGOs and medics alleges breach of public service obligations
www.irishtimes.com
October 30, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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www.thejournal.ie/someone-in-i... @thejournal.ie
Ireland's richest produce more carbon than poorer groups, report says
Oxfam Ireland is calling on the Government to increase taxes on wealthier households.
www.thejournal.ie
October 30, 2025 at 3:55 PM
rightoverflight.bsky.social
Letter in today's Irish Times highlighting the contradiction that travel is "responsible" if it is based on flying
Responsible travel? Sir, - Saturday’s article, “Lessons learned from visiting 59 countries”, is an echo-chamber of encouragement to those who continue to fly despite the climate crisis (Magazine, October 26th). Flying is a highly greenhouse gas-emitting activity. With so much disinformation and misinformation around climate change on social media, we badly need newspapers that are truly “in- formed and responsible”. - Yours, etc, CO’REILLY, Dublin 18.
October 30, 2025 at 3:46 PM
rightoverflight.bsky.social
Come and stand up for kids with us! We'll be at the National Climate Demo, Sat 15th Nov 1pm. We'll be marching for the climate action kids need NOW. ALL sectors must act - INCLUDING aviation. Join us! #EndFossilPower #ForEveryChild
Come and stand up for kids with us! We'll be at the National Climate Demo, Sat 15th Nov 1pm. We'll be matching for the climate action kids need NOW. ALL sectors must act - INCLUDING aviation. Join us! #EndFossilPower #ForEveryChild
October 27, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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🌍What is no.2 out of 19 climate- friendly choices people can make? Fly less.

↘️🛩Research from World Resources Institute based on data from 47 academic journal articles clearly indicates we need to be cutting back on polluting flights. www.wri.org/insights/cli...

#keepthecap
19 Ways to Help the Climate, Ranked
Data shows the most impactful actions individuals can take to help cut carbon emissions are living car-free, flying less and using renewable energy at home.
www.wri.org
October 24, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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💭 Curious about how aviation links to climate justice & greenwashing?

🔥 Join the Stay Grounded US & International Training on Aviation & Climate Justice!

🗓 Nov 25, Dec 2 & 9 – online

➡️ Info & sign-up: stay-grounded.org/training/
October 14, 2025 at 1:25 PM
rightoverflight.bsky.social
Stockholm joins the growing list of municipalities who ban airline advertising, as well as other highly climate destructive products, on their billboards www.badverts.org/latest/stock...
Stockholm leads the way with a fossil fuel advertising ban — Badvertising
The City of Stockholm announced on October 8 that a ban on fossil fuel advertising in the city will be introduced from the summer of 2026. Stockholm will ban fossil fuel advertising in the city's own ...
www.badverts.org
October 18, 2025 at 6:37 PM
rightoverflight.bsky.social
Between lifting the cap and new Derry flights, is Darragh O'Brien minister for climate, or just transport? www.thejournal.ie/readme/opini...
Opinion: Between lifting the cap and new Derry flights, is Darragh O'Brien minister for climate, or just transport?
Darragh O’Brien needs to make sure that his transport portfolio isn’t making things harder for his climate portfolio, Dr Catherine Conlon
www.thejournal.ie
October 11, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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Asked about the effects of ending the Dublin Airport Cap on the climate, Minister O'Brien says "SAFs will play the greatest role in decarbonising the aviation sector". www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/q... Background on so called "SAF" aka unsustainable biofuel: stay-grounded.org/wp-content/u...
October 9, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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Funding deficits for essential rural public transport services and affordable public transport fares? There is a simple and just solution: impose taxes on polluting flights. Excellent letter from Friends of the Irish Environment in today's Irish Times.
Sir , – Minister Darragh O’Brien’s Department of Transport has identified a “funding gap” for Public Service Obligations (PSO) of €250 million. The PSO imposes an obligation on the Government to shore up routes that might not be commercially successful, but are nonetheless considered essential, especially in rural areas. These include BusConnects and the “connecting Ireland rural mobility plan,” the Young Adult Card and the 90-minute fare free child fares inclusion of those aged five to eight-years old. Acknowledging that it is not “fiscally responsible” to maintain such a deficit, the Department proposed a new “sustainable funding model” to “plug the gap”. The alternatives offered are an increase in public transport fares, cutting public transport services or taking €250 million a year away from National Development Plan infrastructure projects. An alternative would be for Mr O’Brien to reinstate the €10 tax on airline tickets imposed by minister for transport Noel Dempsey in 2009 but cancelled by his successor Leo Varadkar in 2014. Ireland is in a minority worldwide in not imposing any airline tax. Germany, Austria, and the Netherlands maintain airport taxes ranging from €29 to €42 per passenger, while even the United States imposes a passenger facility charge (PFC) which averages €37. All increase according to distance. The UK’s short-haul tax is a modest €15 air passenger duty (APD) for short-haul economy class fares, with an increase in taxes in April 2025 and again in April 2026 which will include a 50 per cent increase on private jets – from €673 to €1,141. A flight from Dublin to Rome attracts no tax. Returning you will contribute to another country’s climate efforts. Restoring the air travel tax could meet the funding gap required to maintain our Government’s commitment to public transport – and would also be a step towards climate justice. – Yours, etc, TONY LOWES, Friends of the Irish Environment, Co Cork.
October 7, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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Echoing FOE call for aviation fuel to be taxed - why should the aviation industry get a free pass on rules other sectors follow ? Why is the Government giving tax breaks to the environmentally destructive aviation industry, thereby foregoing revenue needed to fund other just transition measures?
foeireland.bsky.social Friends of the Earth Ireland @foeireland.bsky.social · Oct 6
We have spotlighted five things to watch in Budget 2026 tomorrow to assess the Government’s commitment to tackling the interlinked climate and cost of living crises

Read it here: bit.ly/5thingsBudge...
October 6, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Supporting this call from Friends of the Irish Environment to reinstate air travel tax to support public transport www.friendsoftheirishenvironment.org/press-releas...
Call on Minister to reinstate Air Travel Tax to support public transport - Friends of the Irish Environment
www.friendsoftheirishenvironment.org
October 3, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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🌊100,000+ Irish homes,businesses (4.5%) vulnerable to coastal flooding. Uninsurability rising. www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

😯Meanwhile: Reckless campaign by aviation interests to increase flights MORE. Our government acting to lift Dublin Airport cap -large INCREASES in pollution.
#KeepTheCap
Areas on Dublin’s northside among most at-risk from ‘extreme coastal events’
New analysis raises likelihood that thousands of properties will become uninsurable
www.irishtimes.com
October 2, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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Welcoming Deirdre Duffy highlighting in this article what so many lobbyists on the passenger cap issue are ignoring - "more planes in the sky today is not compatible with a stable climate for our children".
www.rte.ie/news/analysi...
Turbulence ahead as opinions clash over passenger cap
The war of words over Dublin Airport's controversial passenger cap shows no sign of easing up anytime soon, amid very conflicting opinions on what should happen.
www.rte.ie
September 28, 2025 at 9:15 AM
rightoverflight.bsky.social
👏Well said Jack. It's appalling that international aviation pollution is not being addressed in any meaningful way.
😮Imagine if all adults shrugged off their responsibilities to children in the same way? Aviation lobbyists: protecting kids from climate harms = ALL sectors driving down emissions.
= THE IRISH TIMES =» Airlines and emissions Sir, — I thoroughly enjoyed reading a letter today (September 17th) which laid out a history of Dublin Airports passenger numbers, and questioned how an expansion of the passenger cap on our nation’s largest airport is compatible with Ireland’s binding greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction target of 51 per cent (based on 1990 levels) by 2030. Well, I have terrible news for everything on this planet (except perhaps the pockets of airlines and airport authority shareholders). An expansion of Dublin Airport's passenger numbers will have little effect on Ireland's GHG emissions because we, like most other countries in the world, do not count emissions generated by international flights towards our tally. This is because, as everyone knows, the emissions generated by a flight from say Dublin to Paris, cannot possibly be attributable to either Ireland or France while there is any opportunity for policymakers to shrug off responsibility. - Yours, etc, JACK WOGAN, Newcastle, Co Galway.
September 19, 2025 at 11:00 PM