US EditionGreenpeace Reports Sharp Rise in Private Jets to WEF in Davos
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The world's powerful are travelling to the economic summit in a climate-damaging manner. Greenpeace is calling for an immediate ban on luxury flyers to Davos.
In fact, many managers and politicians could also reach the World Economic Forum by train, says Greenpeace. Instead, the number of climate-damaging private flights is increasing.
Environment Writing (EFE).- Greenpeace has asked that private jets be limited during the next edition of the Davos Forum, from 19 to 23 January, considering that the traffic of these planes turns each year into a "climate bomb" in the Swiss Alps. According to an analysis by the environmental organization, one in four participants arrives in Davos by private jet and around 70% of those routes could be covered by train in one day, or by a night tr…
Greenpeace has detailed that, during the Forum week of 2025, 709 private jet flights linked directly to the event were counted.
Ahead of the World Economic Forum in Davos next week, Greenpeace’s Central and Eastern Europe office has published a new analysis of private jet traffic related to the meeting. The “Davos in the Sky” study analyzed private jet flights to and from airports in the Davos area over the past three years — before, during and after the Forum — and found a sharp increase in private jet activity, despite overall Forum attendance remaining broadly stable.
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