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(BBC News) COP28 private jet flights criticised online
Politicians, business leaders, and activists may all be rubbing shoulders at COP28, but on social media many have been criticised for travelling to Dubai by private jet.
While private jets may only account for 4% of total fuel use in global aviation, their environmental impact is disproportionally high. Not only can they be especially energy-intensive, they also emit more greenhouse gases per passenger than bigger planes.
University College London (UCL) researchers say that the environmental cost of a single person flying by private jet from London to COP28 is equivalent to that of 11 passengers on a direct commercial flight.
During COP27, which was held in Egypt last year, 315 private jet journeys were recorded - a number “way beyond the number of world leaders, who should travel in the most secure way possible”, says Mark Maslin, a climate change professor at UCL. “It is essential that COP meetings are in person. But using private jets when you are not a world leader sends the wrong message to the world.”
-Read more: https://ucl.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.14324/111.444/000218.v1
-Read more: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/igp/...te-jet-travel-and-other-modes-transport-cop28
-Read more: https://ucl.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.14324/111.444/000218.v1
Politicians, business leaders, and activists may all be rubbing shoulders at COP28, but on social media many have been criticised for travelling to Dubai by private jet.
While private jets may only account for 4% of total fuel use in global aviation, their environmental impact is disproportionally high. Not only can they be especially energy-intensive, they also emit more greenhouse gases per passenger than bigger planes.
University College London (UCL) researchers say that the environmental cost of a single person flying by private jet from London to COP28 is equivalent to that of 11 passengers on a direct commercial flight.
During COP27, which was held in Egypt last year, 315 private jet journeys were recorded - a number “way beyond the number of world leaders, who should travel in the most secure way possible”, says Mark Maslin, a climate change professor at UCL. “It is essential that COP meetings are in person. But using private jets when you are not a world leader sends the wrong message to the world.”
-Read more: https://ucl.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.14324/111.444/000218.v1
-Read more: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/igp/...te-jet-travel-and-other-modes-transport-cop28
-Read more: https://ucl.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.14324/111.444/000218.v1
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