“There are 400 private jets ferrying delegations to the COP26 conference. @POTUS [US President Joe Biden] brought five. It is estimated they will emit in 24 hours as much CO2 as Scotland emits in a year!”
What RMIT ABC Fact Check found
Mr Downer's claim is nonsense. The Scottish government's most recent estimate, from 2019, puts the country's annual emissions for that year at 47.8 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent. It is not clear just how many private jets arrived in the UK for the Glasgow summit within 24 hours of Mr Downer's claim, but Fact Check's rough calculations for the emissions that could be generated by 400 private jet journeys are in the tens of thousands of tonnes. This estimate is several thousand ti...
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Alexander Downer (Former foreign minister) made this claim around 2 November 2021. RMIT ABC Fact Check (Australia) looked into it and published its finding on 10 November 2021, 8 days later. Its rating was “Nonsense”.
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