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 equivalent carbon dioxide emissions rising from around 5 million tonnes a year at present to 12 million tonnes annually with full use of the existing runway and to 23 million tonnes a year with a second runway. See estimates calculations.

The links below will take you to a range of useful source information on global warming.

SSE Estimates of Stansted Airport CO2 Emissions (June 2008)

Defra Framework for the Code of Best Practice for Carbon Offsetting (February 2008)

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)

Defra Carbon Offsetting Consultation Response from SSE (April 2007)

Cambridge University Climate Leaders Reference Guide (March 2007)

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

Travel Weekly guide to aviation and climate change (January 2007