The department said it wanted to go bigger and estimated the footprint for all its travel. It urged the department to find a way to measure the delegation’s carbon footprint at U.N. The GAO issued one recommendation in its report to the State Department. Kerry with her monthly “Squeal Award,” which she uses to highlight ridiculous government spending. Ernst suggested that the entire conference could be reduced to an email.
confabs to reduce emissions.Įven defenders of the gathering said it’s time to think about sending a “digital delegation” because online attendance has less than 1% of the carbon footprint of a traveler to the conference. The department said whatever emissions resulted from all the travel paled in comparison with the commitments other nations made at the U.N. That can’t be replicated through virtual meetings. The department said there is no substitute for being on site because informal meetings are where deals are made. had to send a large emissions-spewing delegation to show it is serious about cutting emissions. The department told investigators that the U.S. GAO ran its report by the State Department, which defended the flights. It doesn’t include support personnel such as the president’s security detail. The numbers include just those who were credentialed to attend the conference. The total also doesn’t include the 14 members of Congress and 62 congressional staffers, 10 state and local government officials, and 15 nongovernmental advisers, GAO said. Indeed, of the 260 people GAO says the administration sent, 199 were “advisers.” The GAO said he brought 32 others with him to last year’s conference in Egypt, most as “advisers.” Kerry, the White House climate czar, was a particularly large part of the U.S. Shelley Moore Capito, West Virginia Republican. “In the Biden administration, the same people who are closing down power plants across the country and forcing Americans to buy electric vehicles are also the ones flying to climate conferences and using fossil fuels without apology,” said Sen.
attendance was all the more galling because it appears to fly in the face of President Biden’s 2021 executive order directing agencies to track and reduce emissions from travel, or what’s known as “scope 3” emissions. “The double standard is clear, and Americans have had enough of this hot air.” “The gas is always greener when you’re burning fossil fuels in the name of saving the planet,” she said.
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