According to a new report by the International Council on Clean Clean Confortation (ICCT), private jets generated more emissions in 2023 than all flights at major international airports.
ICCT Found Private jets’ greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions exceeded all flights, including commercial flights departing from London’s Heathrow Airport in 2023. It produces as much GHG emissions as 177 cars or nine heavy-duty trucks, and has a trend of rising private jet emissions in the past in Dered State.
“Private jets are an incredibly large source of air and climate pollution,” says ICCT Aviation Fellow Daniel Sithongpur. I said. (Related: UN Climate Envoy Bloomberg’s private jet emits more than 500 times the carbon footprint of a typical car)
Aerial photograph taken on March 21, 2025 shows a plane parked on the runway at Heathrow Airport after closure after a fire broke out at an airport substation in Hayes, west London. Europe’s busiest UK Heathrow Airport was closed 24 hours a day early on March 21 after a massive fire at a power substation to a vast facility west of London, officials said. (Photo by STR/AFP via Getty Images)
“It’s very well known that in a typical year, private jets are responsible for around 2% of their aviation emissions,” says Dan Rutherford, research director and co-author at ICCT. I said Washington Post. “The first thing we did is essentially use flight trajectory data and divide it into individual contributions from the airport and the country.”
According to the report, the report will globally generate GHG emissions produced by private jets globally throughout 2023, measuring and mapping what private jets have generated globally. The ICCT then uses the data to “spatially allocate fuel use and emissions to airports and countries for around 94% of civil jet activities around the world,” according to the report.
According to the report, the data also shows that GHG emissions from private jets are rising globally from 2013 to 2023.
ICCT compared these data to Heathrow Airport’s 2023 Sustainability Report, which points to the year’s departure emissions, the report shows. Heathrow is Europe’s busiest airport And now, it’s the fourth busiest in the world, but the seventh busiest in 2023. timeout.
While some environmentalists, celebrities and Democrats support policies that seek to eliminate and limit GHG emissions, many of them have been caught using private jets to get in and out of opportunities such as sporting events and the summit of climate change policy. For example, the 2024 United Nations Climate Change Conference led guests to arrive at private jets and exchange ideas about reducing GHG emissions.
Notable celebrities who regularly use private jets to preach about climate change initiatives include Leonardo DiCaprio, Taylor Swift, Oprah and Steven Spielberg. Some other. In particular, independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders recently defended his use of his private jet on his “Battle Oligarchy” tour.
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