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Petition · past parliament · Department for Transport

Make any bailouts for UK airlines conditional on reducing emissions

Closed 353 signatures

What the petition asks

The government needs to make UK airlines reduce carbon emissions as a condition of receiving a bail out to survive the COVID-19 outbreak. Currently the government don’t include international flights in the UK carbon budget, and not enough is being done to reduce emissions from this sector.
The current circumstances present an opportunity to request airlines to reduce their emission intensity, to help the UK conform to the UN Paris Agreement. This needs to include actual commitments to reducing emissions rather than just offsetting. Worse crises than the one we’re living through could happen if we don’t take action to create a sustainable future.

Timeline

23 Apr 2020 Petition opened for signatures
23 Oct 2020 Closed to new signatures

Key facts

Signatures 353
Status Closed
Department Department for Transport
Opened 23 Apr 2020
Closed 23 Oct 2020

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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.