BA

Eco-Libris blog on a green conference of the British Booksellers Association (BA) that took part just before the British Book Industry Awards, the Oscars of the British book business.

Four Greenpeace climate campaigners climbed on top of a Manchester to London plane after it parked at Heathrow Airport’s Terminal One. They covered the tailfin with a huge protest banner reading “CLIMATE EMERGENCY – NO 3rd RUNWAY”.

 British Airways aircraft are to be used to gather data about the hidden impact of air travel on climate change in research that could result in much higher environmental surcharges on tickets than expected.