BBGA: Bizav Must Fight Back Against Misinformation
The British Business and General Aviation Association asserts that the industry must be more outspoken about environmental achievements and goals.
Rana Walker, co-founder and principal consultant for business development and crisis management firm GR&AT
Rana Walker, co-founder and principal consultant for business development and crisis management firm GR&AT spoke to attendees at the BBGA annual conference in London on March 2. (Photo: Kate Sarsfield)

The general and business aviation industry must be more outspoken and confident about its environmental achievements and goals if it is to successfully combat the growing hostility from the influential and media-savvy environmental lobby. That was the main message conveyed yesterday at the British Business and General Aviation Association's (BBGA) annual conference in London.

The conference, held at the Leonardo Royal Hotel London St Paul's, was briefly interrupted by a handful of climate activists from the group Fossil-free London. That activist group claimed in an Instagram post that the event was targeted to assert its belief that “aviation is totally unsustainable [and] no technology currently exists to turn it green.”