LONDON: Rishi Sunak, David Cameron and King Charles are simply three of the greater than 70,000 delegates from practically 200 nations on the latest United Nations climate summit in Dubai, COP28. However they’re amongst tons of who may have travelled there by non-public jet. In actual fact, the UK prime minister, international secretary and king even travelled in three separate planes.
At COP27 in Egypt final yr, round 315 non-public jet journeys passed off. That is a unprecedented statistic, particularly as fewer world leaders attended that COP, as many had been busy at a G20 summit in Bali.
That’s why we arrange a group 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 selections.
We additionally in contrast the carbon footprints for the previous three COPs to assist see the place the conferences may very well be positioned as a way 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 knowledge – suggests that is changing into the brand new norm and has moved past simply important world leaders.
