Category: Press releases
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CHILDREN’S RIGHTS GROUP EXPRESSES OUTRAGE AT PLAN TO SCRAP AIRPORT PASSENGER CAP
Campaign group Children’s Rights Over Flights is outraged that the cabinet plans to approve legislation today that would prevent any limits to passenger numbers at Dublin Airport, even as the State-declared climate emergency worsens. The group says it is reckless and irresponsible to abolish the ‘passenger cap’, given the already record levels of aviation fossil…
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CROF appalled to hear that Minister O’Brien attempting to remove Dublin Airport cap
As a group advocating for the rights of children, we are appalled to hear that Minister Darragh O’Brien is attempting to force through the removal of the passenger cap at Dublin airport. It is truly shocking that a minister tasked with tackling the climate crisis, and the avoidable harms it’s wreaking on our children’s future,…
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CAMPAIGNERS CALL FOR END TO AVIATION GREENWASHING AFTER WATCHDOG RULES DAA AD ‘MISLEADING’
Children’s Rights Over Flights campaign group welcomes decision that requires greater transparency on claims about airport pollution 23rd July, Dublin – Parents, grandparents and other supporters of the Children’s Rights Over Flights (CROF) campaign welcomed the Advertising Standards Authority’s (ASA) decision to uphold complaints about sustainability claims made in a Dublin Aviation Authority (DAA) advertisement. The…
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Campaigners call out Dublin aviation “Sustainability” event as irresponsible greenwashing
Wednesday, 4th June, Dublin – A Chapter Zero Ireland event this Friday, 6th June titled “Cleared for Clarity: Rethinking Aviation, Transport, and Sustainability”, is being called out by the Children’s Rights Over Flights (CROF) campaign as an exercise in greenwashing and blatant hypocrisy. The event is being co-hosted by the Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) and…
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Mothers and allies launch Children’s Rights Over Flights Campaign with kite-flying family fun day on Dollymount Strand
Mothers and allies launch Children’s Rights Over Flights Campaign with kite-flying family fun day on Dollymount Strand Parents, grandparents, and other concerned people will launched a new campaign to oppose the expansion of Dublin airport and the plans of the harmful fossil fuelled aviation industry in the times of a climate crisis. The campaign launch…
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