Ed Miliband has over the course of a year emitted more carbon dioxide from flights than an average Brit does in 35 years. Hot air merchant\u2026<\/p>\n
According to Environmental Information Regulations set out in 2004 ministerial plane travel needs to have its carbon footprint tracked by civil servants. Miliband\u2019s total tab is a whopper\u2026<\/p>\n
Guido\u2019s FoI Unit has uncovered that over 15 trips from August 2024 to June 2025 \u2013 including domestic flights \u2013 Miliband emitted 31.03 tonnes CO2 equivalent. 49,952 miles covered\u2026<\/p>\n
Miliband\u2019s most gaseous single trip was in March from London\u202fHeathrow \u202fto \u202fDoha to \u202fBeijing\u202fDaxing: \u202f7,079\u202fmiles \u202fand 6.53\u202ftonnes\u202fCO\u2082e. Considering 2024\u2019s total UK international aviation emissions were around 36 million tonnes, produced by roughly 40 million passengers, that works out to about 0.9 tonnes CO\u2082 per UK resident per year for flights. Multiply that by 34.5 and you get Miliband\u2019s figure so far\u2026<\/p>\n
Read the full list, gathered by DESNZ officials, below:<\/p>\n
17\u202fAug\u202f2024: London\u202fHeathrow\u202f\u2192\u202fLisbon\u202f\u2192\u202fBel\u00e9m\u202f\u2192\u202fLisbon\u202f\u2192\u202fLondon\u202fHeathrow \u2013\u202f10,237\u202fmi \u2013\u202f6,464.39\u202ft\u202fCO\u2082e<\/p>\n
28\u202fSep\u202f2024: New\u202fYork\u202fJFK\u202f\u2192\u202fLondon\u202fHeathrow \u2013\u202f\u202f3,453\u202fmi \u2013\u202f1,903.40\u202ft\u202fCO\u2082e<\/p>\n
16\u202fOct\u202f2024: London\u202fGatwick\u202f\u2192\u202fAberdeen \u2013\u202f399\u202fmi \u2013\u202f0.103\u202ft\u202fCO\u2082e<\/p>\n
23\u202fOct\u202f2024: London\u202fHeathrow\u202f\u2192\u202fWashington\u202fDulles\u202f\u2192\u202fLondon\u202fHeathrow \u2013\u202f\u202f7,344\u202fmi \u2013\u202f4,048.24\u202ft\u202fCO\u2082e<\/p>\n
13\u202fNov\u202f2024: Baku\u202f\u2192\u202fDoha\u202f\u2192\u202fLondon\u202fHeathrow \u2013\u202f\u202f4,302\u202fmi \u2013\u202f3,967.03\u202ft\u202fCO\u2082e<\/p>\n
17\u202fNov\u202f2024: London\u202fGatwick\u202f\u2192\u202fBaku \u2013\u202f\u202f2,472\u202fmi \u2013\u202f0.470\u202ft\u202fCO\u2082e<\/p>\n
24\u202fNov\u202f2024: Baku\u202f\u2192\u202fLondon\u202fGatwick \u2013\u202f2,472\u202fmi \u2013\u202f1,362.64\u202ft\u202fCO\u2082e<\/p>\n
9\u202fFeb\u202f2025: London\u202fHeathrow\u202f\u2192\u202fDelhi\u202f\u2192\u202fLondon\u202fHeathrow \u2013\u202f8,338\u202fmi \u2013\u202f6,181.18\u202ft\u202fCO\u2082e<\/p>\n
15\u202fMar\u202f2025: London\u202fHeathrow\u202f\u2192\u202fDoha\u202f\u2192\u202fBeijing\u202fDaxing \u2013\u202f7,079\u202fmi \u2013\u202f6,527.80\u202ft\u202fCO\u2082e<\/p>\n
24\u202fMar\u202f2025: London\u202fCity\u202f\u2192\u202fBerlin\u202fBrandenburg \u2013\u202f537\u202fmi \u2013\u202f0.0996\u202ft\u202fCO\u2082e<\/p>\n
25\u202fMar\u202f2025: Berlin\u202fBrandenburg\u202f\u2192\u202fLondon\u202fHeathrow \u2013\u202f595\u202fmi \u2013\u202f0.0704\u202ft\u202fCO\u2082e<\/p>\n
6\u202fMay\u202f2025: London\u202fHeathrow\u202f\u2192\u202fOslo \u2013\u202f724\u202fmi \u2013\u202f0.122\u202ft\u202fCO\u2082e<\/p>\n
7\u202fMay\u202f2025: Oslo\u202f\u2192\u202fLondon\u202fHeathrow \u2013\u202f724\u202fmi \u2013\u202f0.127\u202ft\u202fCO\u2082e<\/p>\n
12\u202fJun\u202f2025: London\u202fHeathrow\u202f\u2192\u202fAberdeen \u2013\u202f399\u202fmi \u2013\u202f0.060\u202ft\u202fCO\u2082e<\/p>\n
12\u202fJun\u202f2025: Aberdeen\u202f\u2192\u202fLondon\u202fHeathrow \u2013\u202f399\u202fmi \u2013\u202f0.051\u202ft\u202fCO\u2082e\u200b<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ed Miliband has over the course of a year emitted more carbon dioxide from flights than an average…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215811,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,92721,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-215810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-sleazy-jet","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}