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.
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
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.
Have you tried using fewer paper straws? We’re all in this together 🙏
Next up, the EU subsidizes clearing forests for golf courses as green initiatives.
well isn’t a golf course mostly of green color??
technically all golf courses are green initiatives
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still using words like “greenwashing” directly instead of the already-weaseling “fueling concerns about greenwashing” is seen as expressing an opinion. i’m glad with that if it means i can instantly identify an unreliable right-wing outlet through, say “gone woke”
Writings?
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So, the cheque finally cleared then.
Yep. Cleared by 35000 feet
It’s really hard for me to stay motivated and doing my part when a decade of my hard work can be cancelled out in seconds by a few rich fucks meeting up for dinner.
This is why you never sacrifice for a common good while a billionaire draws breathe.
That’s like saying that cars are greener than buses because they’re faster and more flexible
More that rockets are greener than badgers, by magnitude of difference.
I typed barges but I’m keeping it.
Then the EU’s General Court is stupid and bought. Sorry. Better you hear it from me here than someone in the street.
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An EU court
In which country?!? Where does this “EU court” reside?!?
I suspect France, given that Dassault is involved. Or maybe it is the EU Court, but doubtful
If you read the article or the linked Reuters article you would know it was the General Court, it’s located in Luxembourg, but it’s a court of the EU, not Luxembourg.
I stand corrected, thank you. Somehow I skimmed over both the link to the original article and the actual name.
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What the in the corrupt fuck?
And ketchup is a vegetable.
Me nuking the EU court couldn’t necessarily be seen as a crime because alternatives lack the flexibility and convenience of a nuke.
Say “alternatives” in the title of that’s what you’re doing.
What American style bullshit is this?! 🤬
If even private jets do, what does not count as green investment?
Being a filthy poor who can’t afford air conditioning.
Good job. Now lets make coal mines a green investment too.
