{"id":245585,"date":"2023-02-25T20:32:27","date_gmt":"2023-02-25T19:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=245585"},"modified":"2023-02-25T20:32:34","modified_gmt":"2023-02-25T19:32:34","slug":"german-green-ministers-emitting-the-most-with-government-flightsminister-baerbock-5000-tonnes-co2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=245585","title":{"rendered":"German Green Ministers Emitting The Most With Government Flights\u2026Minister Baerbock 5000 Tonnes CO2!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By\u00a0P Gosselin<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0<\/em>24. February 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Recall how climate activists demand that ordinary citizens, i.e. \u201cuseless consumers\u201d, limit their annual CO2 emissions to just a single measly tonne per person. Currently the average CO2 emissions per person in Europe are about 8 tonnes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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German government ministries run by the Green Party emit by far the most CO2 when it comes to government flights. AI generated symbol image, dall.e 2<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Climate activists, like the German Greens, you\u2019d think, would thus themselves be practicing what they preach, at least limiting their emissions to some extent in order to set an example for the rest of us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To find out whether or not the leading German Greens are preaching water and actually drinking it themselves, economics expert Tilman Kuban of Germany\u2019s opposition Christian Democratic Union (CDU), asked the current Socialist-Green government to provide a breakdown of how many flights were made by the government ministries<\/strong> using the German Armed Forces\u2019 Special Air Mission Wing during the current legislative period (December, 2021 to January, 2023).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the sake of a political overview, there are basically major 6 parties active in Germany. from left spectrum to right: Die Linke, The Greens, The Socialists SPD, The Free Democrats FDP, the Christian Democratic Union CDU and the Alternativ f\u00fcr Deutschland AfD. Currently a leftist coalition made up of the SPD, FDP and Greens make up the government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Germany\u2019s online BILD daily crunched the numbers<\/a> on the number of flights and the CO2 emitted by the different ministries and the people who head them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

62% of all CO2 emissions by government flights were generated by the Greens alone<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the official government data, most of the 11,234 tonnes of CO2 for flights by government ministries so far in the current legislative period are attributable to the Greens: 6900 tonnes of CO2. That is over 60 percent of the CO2 emissions of all ministerial flights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Top frequent flyer\/emitter: Annalena Baerbock<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Number 1 among all the ministers is Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock (Green Party) with 67 flights, 5000 tonnes<\/strong> of CO2 and costs of around 7.6 million euros.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Second place goes Robert Habeck, Minister of Economics and Climate Protection (Green Party) with almost 1900 tonnes<\/strong> of C02 emitted on 32 flights (costing around 3.2 million euros).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In total, 250 flights were taken by the government ministries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The government\u2019s biggest CO2 emitter is Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) himself (not a minister). According to BILD daily:<\/a> \u201cThe Chancellor\u2019s office took 114 flights that emitted almost 7200 tons of CO2. Cost: more than 11.2 million euros.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Number 1 among all the ministers is Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock (Green Party) with 67 flights,\u00a05000 tonnes\u00a0of CO2 and costs of around 7.6 million euros.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":245589,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-245585","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","9":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/image-804.png?fit=1600%2C1067&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-11T3","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":307179,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=307179","url_meta":{"origin":245585,"position":0},"title":"The \u2018elephant in the room\u2019 that risks exposing Britain\u2019s net zero agenda","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"11\/03\/2024","format":false,"excerpt":"It\u2019s one of the Government\u2019s proudest boasts. 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