An EU court has said the manufacture of private jets can’t be excluded from a list of ​activities deemed to be environmentally sustainable.

An EU court has said the manufacture of private jets can’t be excluded from a list of activities deemed to be environmentally sustainable, fuelling concerns about the greenwashing of the emissions of the super-rich.

The list, intended to provide an ⁠overview of green investments, previously excluded aircraft for private or commercial business aviation due to their high emissions compared with other forms of transport following a 2023 decision by the European Commission.

The court argued that the 2023 ruling was made with a number of errors, including that other modes of transport couldn’t necessarily be seen as low-carbon alternatives as they “lack the flexibility and speed” of private jets.

  • 3minutespast
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    2 days ago

    Private jets produced up to 19.5m tonnes of emissions in 2023, more than from all flights departing Heathrow airport that year, the International Council on Clean Transportation reported.

    In 2024, climate scientists warned that the mega-rich use private jets like taxis – and found that flying in a private jet for a single hour can release more CO2 into the atmosphere than the average person produces in a year.

    Once again it’s the 0.1% ruining things for everyone else. When will we as a society finally say we’ve had enough

    • slaacaa
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      1 day ago

      Have you tried using fewer paper straws? We’re all in this together 🙏

    • cecinestpasunecommunication@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      121·
      2 days ago

      The future can only be seen through divinations of billionaire viscera.

      Personally; I can stand living without a future. I’ve kind of adapted. Been one of the walking dead most of my life. I take risks and kind of hope one gets me someday; I’ve lost so many fucking people, and seen the left, or what passes for it here, absolutely disgust me with its dogmatic anti intellectual cowardly cargo cult addiction to doing nothing that will ever matter (including fucking gardening in ways that will matter-im not just being an edgelord here) that I don’t really expect any kind of tomorrow.

      It’s these people who gaslight me for not joining in on the mass ritual suicide who piss me off. Who wake up each day and decide to crush all hope because change is scary and they’d rather face certain death as long as daddy tells them everything’s okay who piss me off.