An EU court has said the manufacture of private jets can’t be excluded from a list of ​activities deemed to be environmentally sustainable.

cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/48796725

An EU court has said the manufacture of private jets can’t be excluded from a list of activities deemed to be environmentally sustainable, fuelling concerns about the greenwashing of the emissions of the super-rich.

The list, intended to provide an ⁠overview of green investments, previously excluded aircraft for private or commercial business aviation due to their high emissions compared with other forms of transport following a 2023 decision by the European Commission.

The court argued that the 2023 ruling was made with a number of errors, including that other modes of transport couldn’t necessarily be seen as low-carbon alternatives as they “lack the flexibility and speed” of private jets.

  • Noite_Etion@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 hours ago

    transport couldn’t necessarily be seen as low-carbon alternatives as they “lack the flexibility and speed” of private jets.

    Despite going through hundreds of litres of jet fuel an hour… All for one person in some cases.

    Sorry trains, you aren’t flexible enough… Whatever the fuck that means

    The court clarified that the climate impact metric used by the Commission is about aircraft operation, while this taxonomy decision was about the manufacturing of the aircraft itself.

    Oh so they agree that private jets are horrendously inefficient and ruin the environment, but they are “green” to build them so that is okay…

    WTF