Ed Miliband has over the course of a year emitted more carbon dioxide from flights than an average Brit does in 35 years. Hot air merchant…
According to Environmental Information Regulations set out in 2004 ministerial plane travel needs to have its carbon footprint tracked by civil servants. Miliband’s total tab is a whopper…
Guido’s FoI Unit has uncovered that over 15 trips from August 2024 to June 2025 – including domestic flights – Miliband emitted 31.03 tonnes CO2 equivalent. 49,952 miles covered…
Miliband’s most gaseous single trip was in March from London Heathrow to Doha to Beijing Daxing: 7,079 miles and 6.53 tonnes CO₂e. Considering 2024’s total UK international aviation emissions were around 36 million tonnes, produced by roughly 40 million passengers, that works out to about 0.9 tonnes CO₂ per UK resident per year for flights. Multiply that by 34.5 and you get Miliband’s figure so far…
Read the full list, gathered by DESNZ officials, below:
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17 Aug 2024: London Heathrow → Lisbon → Belém → Lisbon → London Heathrow – 10,237 mi – 6,464.39 t CO₂e
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28 Sep 2024: New York JFK → London Heathrow – 3,453 mi – 1,903.40 t CO₂e
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16 Oct 2024: London Gatwick → Aberdeen – 399 mi – 0.103 t CO₂e
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23 Oct 2024: London Heathrow → Washington Dulles → London Heathrow – 7,344 mi – 4,048.24 t CO₂e
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13 Nov 2024: Baku → Doha → London Heathrow – 4,302 mi – 3,967.03 t CO₂e
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17 Nov 2024: London Gatwick → Baku – 2,472 mi – 0.470 t CO₂e
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24 Nov 2024: Baku → London Gatwick – 2,472 mi – 1,362.64 t CO₂e
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9 Feb 2025: London Heathrow → Delhi → London Heathrow – 8,338 mi – 6,181.18 t CO₂e
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15 Mar 2025: London Heathrow → Doha → Beijing Daxing – 7,079 mi – 6,527.80 t CO₂e
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24 Mar 2025: London City → Berlin Brandenburg – 537 mi – 0.0996 t CO₂e
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25 Mar 2025: Berlin Brandenburg → London Heathrow – 595 mi – 0.0704 t CO₂e
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6 May 2025: London Heathrow → Oslo – 724 mi – 0.122 t CO₂e
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7 May 2025: Oslo → London Heathrow – 724 mi – 0.127 t CO₂e
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12 Jun 2025: London Heathrow → Aberdeen – 399 mi – 0.060 t CO₂e
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12 Jun 2025: Aberdeen → London Heathrow – 399 mi – 0.051 t CO₂e
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