Transport and aviation are a specific focus for Caroline Lucas and she promotes a transport system that serves the needs of local communities without destroying our health or the environment. She has worked hard to defend public ownership of railways and to support positive alternatives to travel by car. Caroline’s campaigns also include a ban on night flights and calling for the aviation industry to pay the true environmental and social costs of flying. She has opposed the expansion of airports in London and the South East and led work in the European Parliament to curb the impact of aviation on climate change.
Below you can read more about her achievements in the European Parliament, press releases and correspondence on transport matters.
Image: Caroline cycling in her constituency.
Press Releases
Green MEP Welcomes Strong Euro-Parliament Vote On Aviation And Climate Proposals
- 27.5.2008
Green MEP Calls For Immediate Suspension Of ‘False Solution’ Biofuel Target Ahead Of RTFO Launch
- 14.4.2008
Caroline’s Submission to the Department for Transport’s Heathrow Consultation - February 2008
- 26.2.2008
Green Euro-MP Denounces Sham Heathrow Consultation And ‘Grossly Irresponsible’ Commitment To Aviation Expansion Ahead Of Westminster Rally
- 21.2.2008
Green Euro-MP Slams EU Commissioner For Contradictory Change Of Tack On Biofuels
- 14.1.2008
EU Falls At First Climate Hurdle After Bali: Car CO2 Emissions Proposals ‘Not Strong Enough’
- 19.12.2007
EU Looks Set To Fail Climate Tests On Transport Despite Green Talk, Says Green Euro-MP
- 18.12.2007
South East Green MEP Votes To Hold Oil Industry To Account For Climate Emissions
- 27.11.2007
Green MEP Condemns Heathrow Decision As “Climate Vandalism”
- 22.11.2007
South East MEP Adds Voice To ‘Biggest Ever’ Campaign Against Heathrow Expansion
- 30.10.2007
Lucas Welcomes Tough EU Action On Airlines’ Climate Emissions
- 3.10.2007
Greens Fight Against ‘Monster’ Trucks On Roads As MEPs Give Green Light To 60 Tonne Vehicles
- 5.9.2007
Lucas Launches ‘Big Lemon’ Eco-Bus Service For Brighton
- 31.8.2007
Emissions Trading Will Fail To Stop EU Flying Into Climate Disaster, MEP Warns Summit
- 13.6.2007
Hastings-Bexhill Link Road Unnecessary, Ineffective And Unwelcome Says Green MEP
- 8.6.2007
Green Euro-MP Hears Of Soton’s Airport Woes In Visit To City
- 18.4.2007
Green MEP Slates EU Failure To Cut Car Emissions, As Wrangle Reveals Chaos At Heart Of Climate Policy
- 6.2.2007
Government Must Block New Isle Of Wight Road, Says Green MEP
- 18.1.2007
EU Aviation Plan ‘A Hugely Wasted Opportunity’, Says Green MEP
- 20.12.2006
Green Taxes On Flights Not Enough, Says Euro-MP
- 5.12.2006
MEPs Back Green Calls For New EU Air Traffic Control System To Combat Climate Change
- 14.11.2006
Southampton Airport Expansion Plans Will ‘Hit Community Hard’, Warns Green Euro-MP
- 9.11.2006
Euro-MP Intervenes In Farnborough Flights Row
- 7.11.2006
Green Euro-MP Condemns ‘Disastrous’ Expansion Plan At Gatwick
- 20.10.2006
MEP Demands Gov’t Action To Clip Airlines’ Wings, As Oxford Report Highlights Climate Impact Of Cheap Flights
- 17.10.2006
Airlines Reeling After MEPs Adopt Green Proposals To Cut Flying’s Impact On Climate
- 4.7.2006
Government Must ‘Rethink’ Aviation Policy, Warns Green MEP
- 27.6.2006
Gatwick Bans MEP’s Photo In Climate Change Row
- 23.5.2006
Green MEP Calls For Tax On Aviation Fuel And VAT On Air Tickets: Gatwick Passenger Creates 85 kg Of Carbon – Every Flight
- 8.3.2006
EU Should Block UK U-Turn On Biodiesel, Says MEP
- 16.1.2006
Euro MP Urges Drivers To Get On Their Bikes
- 16.9.2005
Labour Has Made Skies Noisier, Says New Report Launched By Euro-MP
- 23.3.2005
EU Finance Ministers Discuss Aviation Fuel Tax
- 16.2.2005
Greens Launch Campaign To Ban EU Night Flights
- 19.1.2005
Taxpayers Will Foot Airbus Bill For Generations, Says Green MEP
- 18.1.2005
Letters and Replies
Objections to Planning Applications
- 4.6.2008
Correspondence about Aviation
- 4.12.2007
Correspondence about Transport Safety
- 30.11.2007
Correspondence about Public Transport
- 30.8.2007
Correspondence about Transport Fuels
- 30.1.2007
In the Parliament
Written Questions - Environmental Impacts of Aviation
- 30.4.2007
Report - Aviation Expansion
- 30.6.2006
Written Questions - Agrofuels and Biodiesel
- 30.1.2006
Written Questions - Trans European Networks
- 28.3.2003
Report - Shipping Emissions
- 3.2.2003
Report - The Impact of Transport on Health
- 1.3.2001
Written Declaration - Noise From Airports
- 26.1.2001
Written Questions - Transport Safety
- 22.6.2000
Report - Air Transport and the Environment
- 3.1.2000
Reports
Greening the European Parliament
- 12.4.2007
Is There Another Route We Could Take?
- 16.9.2002
Aviation and Climate Change
- 3.4.2002
Articles
Trading Tough - The World Today magazine, Chatham House
- 20.2.2008
Comment is free - Guardian: No more plain sailing
- 14.2.2008
The EU Flies Into A Storm Over Aviation Emissions - Parliament Magazine - 15 January 2008
- 15.1.2008
Uncomfortable Questions - The Aviation Industry and the EU
- 1.2.2001
Speeches
(Listen & Watch) Caroline on Biofuels
- 8.2.2008
(Listen & Watch) Caroline on Heathrow
- 8.2.2008
Plenary - Aviation and the Environment
- 30.7.2006
Airport Expansion - Options, Alternatives and Opportunities
- 1.9.2002
Plenary - Impact of Transport on Public Health
- 27.2.2002
Plenary - Safety and Air Transport
- 4.9.2001
Plenary - European Airline Industry
- 3.5.2000
