AirportWatch, formed in 2000, is an umbrella organisation which campaigns for a demand management

Transportation Demand Management

Transportation demand management, traffic demand management or travel demand management is the application of strategies and policies to reduce travel demand , or to redistribute this demand in space or in time.In transport as in any network, managing demand can be a cost-effective alternative to...

 approach to aviation.

History

AirportWatch was formed in 2000.

In the run-up to the 2007 Camp for Climate Action

Camp for Climate Action

The Camps for Climate Action are campaign gatherings that take place to draw attention to, and act as a base for direct action against, major carbon emitters, as well as to develop ways to create a zero-carbon society...

 near Heathrow Airport, BAA sought an injunction, banning members of groups supporting AirportWatch, such as the National Trust

National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty

The National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, usually known as the National Trust, is a conservation organisation in England, Wales and Northern Ireland...

 and Greenpeace

Greenpeace

Greenpeace is a non-governmental environmental organization with offices in over forty countries and with an international coordinating body in Amsterdam, The Netherlands...

, from attending the protest. The airport operator won a reduced injunction naming senior members of AirportWatch and Plane Stupid

Plane Stupid

Plane Stupid is a UK-focused group of environmental protesters who state their aim as wanting to see an end to airport expansion for what it sees as "unnecessary and unsustainable" flights. The organisation has no formal hierarchy, leader, or media figurehead. It is a loose association of...

, but not including AirportWatch or its members.

AirportWatch is a member of the Stop Climate Chaos

Stop Climate Chaos

Stop Climate Chaos is a climate change coalition of primarily environmental and international development NGOs that was formed in September 2005. The coalition ran the big I Count campaign in 2006–07 and organised The Wave - a campaign focused on the climatic impacts of energy production which...

 Coalition.

Campaign Issues

These campaign issues have been identified by AirportWatch:

• Climate change
  Climate change
  Climate change is a significant and lasting change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns over periods ranging from decades to millions of years. It may be a change in average weather conditions or the distribution of events around that average...
  
   effect of the carbon dioxide emissions

• Noise
  Noise
  In common use, the word noise means any unwanted sound. In both analog and digital electronics, noise is random unwanted perturbation to a wanted signal; it is called noise as a generalisation of the acoustic noise heard when listening to a weak radio transmission with significant electrical noise...
  
   complaints by local communities near airports

• Environmental impact near airports

• Growth in low-cost holiday flights affecting the UK economy

• Possible environmental effects from aviation

• Effectiveness of carbon offsetting in removing CO2 from the atmosphere

See also

• Carbon offsetting
• Climate Change
  Climate change
  Climate change is a significant and lasting change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns over periods ranging from decades to millions of years. It may be a change in average weather conditions or the distribution of events around that average...
  
  
• Flying Matters
  Flying Matters
  Flying Matters was a pro-aviation coalition in the United Kingdom. Members included tourist organisations, airlines, aerospace manufacturers, trade associations, airport operators, growers and others. Formed in June 2007, they have issued briefings, press releases, lobbied Members of Parliament and...
  
   pro-aviation expansion commercial coalition
• Air transport and the environment (United Kingdom)
  Air transport and the environment (United Kingdom)
  The environmental impact of aviation in the United Kingdom is increasing due to the increasing demand for air travel in the country. In the past 25 years the UK air transport industry has seen sustained growth, and the demand for passenger air travel in particular is forecast to increase more than...
  
  
• Heathrow Airport
• Environmental direct action in the United Kingdom
  Environmental direct action in the United Kingdom
  The environmental direct action movement in the United Kingdom started in 1991 with the forming of the first UK Earth First! group. The movement rapidly grew to include road protest camps, airport camps, anti-GMO actions, electricity generators, and quarry actions.-History:The Earth First! movement...
  
  
• Stop Stansted Expansion
  Stop Stansted Expansion
  Stop Stansted Expansion is an advocacy group established in 2002 as a working group of the North West Essex and East Herts Preservation Association, in response to the Government's consultation on expanding UK airports and, particularly, expansion plans for Stansted Airport subsequently defined...
  
  

External links

• AirportWatch website