The End of Cheap Flights?

The only sustainable solution to the end of cheap flights is to bring about a new era of cheap high speed rail travel, and the only way to do that is to switch the focus of public policy – from the air to the ground...

Message from Greenpeace...

Fuelling the Fire

Rising oil prices offer the best hope of curbing carbon emissions in the short term, but they also reflect our unquenchable thirst for the black gold. Just don't mention the 'R' word...

The airline emissions trade - a price worth paying?

Winners, losers and hidden costs in the carbon offset game

Reclaim the tracks!

In the face of price increases of 3 times the rate of inflation for average rail journeys in the UK, arguments in support of greater public investment and even re-nationalisation are gaining strength. But as with so much of environmental and transport policy, the opposite is happening in practice...