Julien Bayou wants to table a bill to ban private jets

MP EELV criticized the significant pollution caused by private jets. “How to ask the population for effort, how to imagine a fair transition, if the richest are completely exempt from everything?”, He answers our colleagues from Liberation. “It’s time to ban private jets.” Green MP Julien Bayou said in an interview with Liberation that he wanted to table a bill this fall aimed in particular at banning private jets. After the heat waves suffered in Europe and around the world, the drought and the forest fires, calls on him to tackle the “whim of the richest who are also the biggest polluters.” “It’s a question of justice How to ask for efforts from the population, how to imagine a fair transition, if the richest are completely exempt from everything? hour only, a single private jet can emit two tons of CO2″Julien Bayou explains that he is in contact with the anonymous host of the Twitter account “I Fly Bernard”, who denounces the too frequent use of private jets by billionaires, sometimes for short distances. Several other accounts have emerged in recent months, reproducing this pattern, there is thus a Twitter page following the movements of Elon Musk, boss of Tesla. 2021 that in “just one hour, a single private jet can emit two tonnes of CO2”. But also that “private jets are 5 to 14 times more polluting than commercial planes (per passenger) and 50 times more polluting than trains”. according to a document from the Ministry of Ecology. The bill will be “very open” assures the elected official who says he is counting on deputies from the Nupes but also potentially from the Modem, “we can even imagine a European initiative”. “In September, we are working on the practical side, there is no shortage of runways,” says Julien Bayou, adding that “mega-yachts and other ostentatious signs of pollution are also part of the package for a just transition.”Salomé Vincendon BFMTV journalist