- Hundreds of private jets are said to be taking VIPs and their staffs to the
COP26 climate summit. - Amazon's
Jeff Bezos , President Joe Biden, and other world leaders took private jets to the summit.
As hundreds of private jets ferry world leaders and top business executives to the UN's COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, environmentalists are up in arms over the environmental damage caused by the travel.
Scotland's Sunday Mail, citing
US President Joe Biden traveled to the climate-crisis symposium on Air Force One, and the Sunday Mail said the leaders of Canada, France, Germany, India, Israel, and Japan all used their own aircraft as well. Amazon's Jeff Bezos also flew in on his $65 million Gulfstream jet, British media reported.
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is planning on returning to London from Scotland on a
The International Council on Clean Transportation says commercial aviation accounts for about 2% of global carbon emissions, a number expected to triple by 2050.
The European advocacy group Transport and Environment said in a May report that private planes were five to 14 times as polluting as commercial planes on a per passenger basis and 50 times as polluting as trains.
"It can't be stressed enough how bad private jets are for the