Camp protesting London’s Heathrow airport expansion

BBC online has an excellent series on the Camp for Climate Action whose week-long protest demands stopping an expansion to London’s Heathrow airport. The protestors claim the expansion and growing air travel in general generate the majority of greenhouse gases that contribute to the earth’s changing climate.

Greenpeace campaigner Emily Armistead said in a radio station interview:

"Aviation emissions aren't even part of our climate budget - they don't fall within Kyoto [Protocol, the treaty for climate change]- and for that reason the government has just given the aviation industry a green light to expand when the rest of us are being told we have to reduce our emissions."

International flights leaving the UK constitute 7% of all national carbon dioxide emissions.

Read the full story: Hundreds due at airport protest