Tag: environment
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Opening Statement at Committee on Transport hearing
Opening statement of Children’s Rights Over Flights to the Joint Committee on Transport, 18th March 2026 re. the General Scheme of the Dublin Airport (Passenger Capacity) Bill 2026 Thank you all for having us. Children’s Rights Over Flights is an all-volunteer unfunded campaign group, formed directly in response to the campaign by vested interests to…
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Health professionals and children’s rights advocates rip up Minister’s bill to abolish Dublin Airport cap
18th March 2026, Kildare St, Campaigners including Children’s Rights over Flights and Irish Doctors for the Environment led led a protest in opposition to the expansion of aviation – specifically the lifting of the Dublin airport passenger cap, at a time of worsening climate crisis.
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Joint Letter on Aviation Emissions and Passenger Cap
Calling for “an urgent halt to the Government’s intervention to remove the Dublin Airport passenger cap” out of concern for “the negative implications that the resultant increase in emissions will have for the public interest – especially children’s best interests and public health, both globally and in Ireland”
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Call for Clean Air Strategy to adequately address aviation air pollution
“The Clean Air Strategy must be responsive to emerging research and health risks, and all sources of air pollution, including aviation, if it is to be fully fit-for-purpose.” – Children’s Rights Over Flights submission to the Public consultation on updating the Clean Air Strategy. Aviation pollution has serious consequences for air quality and related health…
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Messages From Above
Michael O’Leary recently informed us that carbon emissions (GHG’s) from aviation worldwide make up just 2.5% of the world’s total. He did not mention, however, that flying happens to be one of our most carbon-intensive activities. The reason it makes up such a small proportion of the worlds’ carbon emissions is that only around 10%…
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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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David and Goliath struggle playing out to stop Dublin Airport Authority expanding aviation at the expense of children’s futures
In this age of increasing climate breakdown, Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) has applied to increase the cap on the number of passengers permitted to fly through Dublin Airport by a massive 25% – an expansion that would increase carbon emissions by an estimated 750,000 metric tonnes annually [i]. DAA is currently breaching the existing cap…
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