It’s the old ‘do as we say, not as we do’ routine again. What about those supposedly naughty emissions? Hollow laughs all round.

Move comes despite pledges to do more to cut emissions, says Politico.
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The European Union is planning to spend millions of euros more on private jet flights for its top officials — just as it is proclaiming its green credentials and pledging to step up the fight against climate change.

The bloc has raised the amount that can be spent under a five-year contract for “air taxi” flights by more than €3.5 million, according to a document published this month in the EU’s tenders database.

The new maximum amount of €10.71 million for the contract, which runs from 2016 to 2021, represents a 50 percent increase on the original value of €7.14 million.

The EU has been placing increasing emphasis on green policies in recent months. Ahead of Monday’s U.N. climate summit in New York, Miguel Arias Cañete, the European commissioner for climate action and energy, declared: “The EU has a strong story to tell — we are global climate leaders.”

European Commission President-elect Ursula von der Leyen has promised to set a 2050 climate neutrality goal for the EU and to raise the bloc’s 2030 emissions reduction target to at least 50 percent from 1990 levels.

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September 25, 2019 at 03:27AM