World Bank Officials Accused Of “Hypocrisy” After Jet Travel To UN Summit | News World

The World Bank is under fire after its officials racked up a carbon footprint equal to the annual emissions of 350 cars while travelling to a United Nations climate summit in Azerbaijan last November, The New York Post has reported.

A leaked attendee list showed 254 World Bank officials took jets to the oil-rich nation for the 12-day summit. Their round-trip travel from Washington, DC, to Baku generated at least 1,500 metric tonnes of carbon emissions, according to the UN’s Carbon Emissions Calculator.

Citing data from the US Environmental Protection Agency, the report noted that this level of emissions equals the annual greenhouse gas output of 350 cars or the energy consumption of 200 American homes.

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