World Bank bureaucrats including president Ajay Banga under fire for flying private jets to UN Climate Summit while advocating carbon reductions

World Bank officials, including President Ajay Banga, have faced criticism for flying private jets to a UN climate summit while advocating for carbon reduction.
Critics have condemned their actions as «hypocrisy,» citing the massive carbon footprint of their travel and the organization's lavish spending habits.

How big was their carbon footprint?

World Bank officials who travelled to the United Nations' annual global warming conference spew CO2 emissions equivalent to 200 US households' annual production, leading to charges of climate «hypocrisy.»

254 World Bank representatives attended the 12-day green boondoggle in November in the oil and gas-rich dictatorship of Azerbaijan, according to a leaked guest list.

Using the UN's Carbon Emissions Calculator, a NY Post analysis of CO2 data revealed that the large delegation's round-trip carbon footprint from Washington, DC, to Baku, was at least 1,500 metric tons, as quoted in a report by The NY Post.

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When senior managers visited the capital of Azerbaijan eighteen months ago, the international organization reserved the opulent Q Suites on Qatar Airways, according to a November Post article.

The CO2 estimate has been calculated using this route as a benchmark, which includes a layover in Doha on both legs.

According to data from the US Environmental Protection Agency, the journey produces the same quantity of greenhouse gases as 350 cars or the annual electricity consumption of 200 US households.

Will there be consequences for the World Bank’s spending?

The disclosures follow an October report by the left-leaning British NGO Oxfam