LONDON: Rishi Sunak, David Cameron and King Charles are simply three of the greater than 70,000 delegates from practically 200 international locations on the newest United Nations local weather summit in Dubai, COP28. However they’re amongst a whole lot who could have travelled there by non-public jet. In reality, the UK prime minister, overseas secretary and king even travelled in three separate planes.
At COP27 in Egypt final yr, round 315 non-public jet journeys occurred. That is a rare statistic, particularly as fewer world leaders attended that COP, as many have been busy at a G20 summit in Bali.
That’s why we arrange a workforce of educational specialists to estimate the carbon footprint of journey to this yr’s assembly, COP28 in Dubai, for various modes of transport together with non-public jets. We in the end wish to empower attendees to make knowledgeable climate-conscious journey decisions.
We additionally in contrast the carbon footprints for the previous three COPs to assist see the place the conferences may very well be positioned so as to dissuade attendees from utilizing non-public jets, until completely important for safety. Using non-public jets final yr – and presumably this yr too, although we don’t but have full information – suggests that is turning into the brand new norm and has moved past simply important world leaders.
