The Aviation Environment Federation (AEF) is the principal UK NGO campaigning on aviation's impacts for people and the environment. AEF formed in 1975 as a federation to represent the interests of communities living around civil airfields and airports who were increasingly affected by the noise from a rapidly growing industry, and to seek solutions at a national policy level. Today, our work extends beyond the UK to influencing European and global policy makers, and our expertise has expanded to include local air pollution, climate change, airport planning and economic issues, aiming to protect the environment, public health and quality of life through securing policies and measures that ensure effective limits on noise, emissions and other environmental impacts from the aviation sector.