Despite an executive order from President JoeBiden, the StateDept did not track the jet emissions spewed by ClimateEnvoy John Kerry’s trips to two international environmental confabs blamed for making the environment worse.
In a scolding audit, the Government Accountability Office said on Thursday that the State Department didn’t comply with Biden’s orders meant to curb greenhouse gas emissions by federal officials when it did not calculate the emissions from travel to two U.N. climate change conferences by Kerry, the special presidential envoy for climate, and hundreds of aides.A British report said most of the emissions from the 2021 event came from air travel.
“According to the United Kingdom government's report, greenhouse gas emissions from aviation travel to COP26 were significant in comparison to estimated total emissions from the event. According to this report, approximately 72% of the greenhouse gas calculated residual emissions from the event came from international aviation,” the GAO audit said.
The agency explained, “These goals include greenhouse gas emissions reductions from aviation travel. For State and other federal agencies, the first step in meeting these goals is understanding U.S. greenhouse gas emissions from air travel and other sources, including U.S. delegation air travel to meetings of the United Nations Conference of the Parties.”
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