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A private jet comes in to land at Stansted Airport in Essex, September 2, 2022
THE Scottish government must turbocharge talks with Westminster to tax private jets and curb the “reckless pollution” that is fuelling the climate crisis, Oxfam Scotland has urged.
The charity warns in a report today that emissions from the private jets of 23 billionaires are the equivalent of 35 million train journeys between Edinburgh Waverley and Glasgow Queen Street.
Slapping a tax on the nearly 13,000 private flights in Scotland last year could have raised almost £30m, or £21m if flights to remote islands were exempted, it said.
Coal-fired stoves in traditional homes are the primary source of extreme levels of air pollution in over-crowded Ulaanbaatar. As more people become climate-displaced, the situation is likely to worsen, write SCIENCE AND SOCIETY
Climate justice and workers’ rights movements are uniting to make the rich pay for our transition to a green economy, writes assistant general secretary of PCS JOHN MOLONEY, ahead of a major demonstration on September 20
British cross-border train fares far outstrip flights, ranking among Europe’s worst
