Where has she travelled on carbon-dumping-into-the-upper-atmosphere long-haul flights this past year? To name just a few, back in November 2023, she flew to Singapore to walk the Green Carpet and give 'Earth Shot' awards including in the category of "clean air". How ironic.
When you get homesick, how about a round-the-world flight back to good 'ole NZ to marry on location at a vineyard? Yes, in January 2024 it was long-haul to do the wedding in the Hawkes Bay. Then in March 2024 she burnt those air miles to Italy to inaugurate the academic year of the University of Bologna. Oh, and don't forget the carbon dumping flight up to Chicago in August 2024 to visit the Democratic Party Convention for a yarn. And why go to Italy once in a year when you can go there twice on a long-haul jet? To accept another award, this past week she flew to Venice to whoop it up an event coinciding with the Venice Film Festival.
That's just a few of the flights we know about. We've got no problem with air-travel at this Blog, provided carbon emissions are priced, though we do note the US doesn't have an emissions trading scheme like NZ. Maybe that's a reason Ardern is basing herself outside this country, since she would probably single-handedly blow our reduction targets.
Professor Robert MacCulloch holds the Matthew S. Abel Chair of Macroeconomics at Auckland University. He has previously worked at the Reserve Bank, Oxford University, and the London School of Economics. He runs the blog Down to Earth Kiwi from where this article was sourced.
6 comments:
Don't forget she used the NZ taxpayer NZRAF to and from and back to do some breast feeding as well........so, so brave!!
Dam (e) Jacinda has not caused or contributed as much Green House Gas flying as being suggested because international flights are not calculated into the mix . Domestic flights inside a territorial border -Yes .
Portrait of a hypocrite.
Be kind Robert!!!! It must be all lies because I didnt hear it from the podium of truth.
Surely there must be a correlation of waffle to C02 emissions that could be taxed.
Basil, interesting that domestic flights count. Explains why Air NZ cancels so many, they are trying to be green.
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