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The London Plan – drawn up by Sadiq Khan and approved by Communities secretary Robert Jenrick – includes no provision for Heathrow Airport Ltd’s plans for a third runway.

Leeds City Council has approved plans to expand Leeds Bradford Airport.

The French Government has scrapped plans to expand Paris’ Charles de Gaulle airport.

A group of MPs, councillors and scientists has staged a last-ditch attempt to stop the £150M expansion of Leeds Bradford Airport (LBA).

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) methods could be key to carbon neutral aviation, according to a new study published by researchers from Swiss university ETH Zurich.

Pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca – which developed the Oxford/Astra Zeneca Covid-19 vaccine – has thrown its support behind the proposed expansion of Stansted Airport.

The proposed expansion of Stansted Airport is “incompatible” with the UK’s climate commitments, Aviation Environment Federation director Tim Johnson told the public inquiry into the proposal yesterday.

A public inquiry has begun to examine a local council’s decision to block expansion of Stansted Airport.

Plans to bring Gatwick Airport’s second runway into regular use would only be possible with a government intervention to prevent other airport expansions, according to the Aviation Environment Federation (AEF).

Environmental scientists have criticised Australian plans to build a new airport and 2.7km runway in Antarctica.