GORDON BROWN HAS BIGGEST PERSONAL CARBON FOOTPRINT OF ALL EU LEADERS
March 1st, 2009
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A FRENCH environmental charity has concluded Gordon Brown's globetrotting made the senior European leader with the heaviest carbon footprint in 2008. Terra Eco said that although Brown made fewer journeys than France's hyperactive President Nicolas Sarkozy, he pumped more carbon into the atmosphere using larger less fuel efficient planes. Last year Mr Brown generated more than 8,400 tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) on international and domestic flights amounting to almost 158,000 kilometres, said Terra Eco, travelling by Boeing 747, 757 and 777s. ...
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