Eco group slams Davos summit as global elites arrive in private jets to talk climate policy
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A major international climate group opposed to fossil fuels released a study showing the World Economic Forum's annual event triggers an uptick in private jet flights to the region.
"Europe is experiencing the warmest January days ever recorded and communities around the world are grappling with extreme weather events supercharged by the climate crisis," Greenpeace campaigner Klara Maria Schenk said in a statement Friday. "Meanwhile, the rich and powerful flock to Davos in ultra-polluting, socially inequitable private jets to discuss climate and inequality behind closed doors." Thomas Catenacci is a politics writer for Fox News Digital.
"Davos has a perfectly adequate railway station, still these people can’t even be bothered to take the train for a trip as short as 21 [kilometers]," she continued. "Do we really believe that these are the people to solve the problems the world faces?"
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