Stop Stansted Expansion Campaign - Climate Change

Thaxted - under the present flightpath and threatened with quadrupled activity

Takeley's 12th century parish church, close to proposed second runway

Harcamlow Way, Bamber's Green - much of the long distance path and village would disappear under Runway 2

Clavering - typical of the Uttlesford villages threatened by urbanisation

CLIMATE CHANGE - LINKS TO RESOURCES

The climate change impacts of expansion at Stansted Airport would be enormous, with predicted annual carbon dioxide emissions rising from around 5 million tonnes a year at present to 7 million tonnes annually with full use of the existing runway and to 12 million tonnes a year with a second runway.

The links below will take you to a range of useful source information on global warming, but see especially the SSE presentation to get an idea of what these numbers really mean.

Defra Framework for the Code of Best Practice for Carbon Offsetting (February 2008)
Defra Carbon Offsetting Consultation Response from SSE (April 2007)

Emissions Cost Assessment Consultation Response from SSE (October 2007)

Climate Change Bill - Parliamentary Scrutiny (August 2007)

Evidence of Wider Environmental Impacts of Climate Change -
Aqqaluk Lynge, Leader of the Inuit Circumpolar Council (July 2007)

Beyond Stern: From the Climate Change Programme Review to the Draft Climate Change Bill -
House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee (July 2007)

Ministerial Statement on Aviation Carbon Emissions as percentage of total UK Emissions (May 2007)

BBC Q&A on Climate Change

Read the best guide we've found to date on the issue of aviation and climate change

Cambridge University Climate Leaders Reference Guide (March 2007)

House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee -
Pre–Budget 2006 and the Stern Review (March 2007)

SSE Stansted Airport Climate Change Presentation (February 2007)

Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change (October 2006)