A private jet “pollutes ten times more than an airplane“, It is “so time to banish“this means of transport, hammered this Sunday, August 21 on franceinfo the national secretary of EELV Julien Bayou, while the Minister of Transport Clément Beaune said he was thinking about the regulation of private jet flights.
franceinfo: You are asking for a total ban on private jets. Do you welcome a first step from the government?
Julien Bayou: For the moment, we are only at the declarations. But I am delighted that my proposal to ban private jets can at least initiate the debate. Because after this summer when we again saw that climate change is underway, I think we have also measured the extent to which there are deep inequalities. While everyone was suffering from the heat waves, linked to the excess of CO2 in the atmosphere, we saw these private jets increase the number of trips.
“It’s about whimsical trips, which could have been done by train or commercial plane. And a jet pollutes ten times more than an airplane. So it’s time to ban them, because they literally poison us”.
Julien Bayou, national secretary of the Greensat franceinfo
What the Minister of Transport says, who mentions in particular a taxation of these private jets, is it all the same going in the right direction?
NGOs tell us that the average fortune of those who take these private jets is 1.3 billion euros. So if we put a tax, for example of 15,000 euros, it wouldn’t even be pocket money for these people. The issue is not taxation. What is at stake is regulation and prohibition. This is the measure that penalizes the fewest people and that has an immediate, concrete effect on the climate.
So Clément Beaune’s proposals do not change your objective of filing a bill to ban private jets in the fall?
This government offers a lot and does very little. We have seen it with pesticides, we have seen it with the development of renewable energies. So the role of ecologists is to propose and initiate the debate. I will obviously contact the Minister of Transport, to see if he wanted to create a diversion and gain some time, or if he really wants to act. If so, I have this proposed ban and we can discuss it.