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Estimated travel footprint this year

Distance travelled multiplied by an emission factor for the aircraft each figure is assumed to travel on. An estimate, not a measurement, and deliberately conservative: it uses the minimum reported distance.

  1. 1Donald Trump
    Donald Trump

    Boeing VC-25A ("Air Force One")

    ≈ 4,277.1 t CO₂
  2. 2JD Vance
    JD Vance

    Boeing C-32A ("Air Force Two")

    ≈ 1,704.4 t CO₂
  3. 3Marco Rubio
    Marco Rubio

    Boeing C-32A (US State Department)

    ≈ 1,565.8 t CO₂
  4. 4Volodymyr Zelensky
    Volodymyr Zelensky

    Chartered long-range government aircraft

    ≈ 1,441.4 t CO₂
  5. 5Benjamin Netanyahu
    Benjamin Netanyahu

    Boeing 767 ("Wing of Zion")

    ≈ 1,155.2 t CO₂
  6. 6Xi Jinping
    Xi Jinping

    Boeing 747-8 (Air China state flight)

    ≈ 969.3 t CO₂
  7. 7Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
    Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

    Airbus A330-200 (Turkish state flight)

    ≈ 553.5 t CO₂
  8. 8Anthony Albanese
    Anthony Albanese

    Boeing 737 BBJ (RAAF VIP flight)

    ≈ 527.5 t CO₂
  9. 9Vladimir Putin
    Vladimir Putin

    Ilyushin Il-96-300PU

    ≈ 409.1 t CO₂
  10. 10Narendra Modi
    Narendra Modi

    Boeing 777-300ER ("Air India One")

    ≈ 225 t CO₂
  11. 11Andy Burnham
    Andy Burnham

    Airbus A321neo ("Vespina")

    ≈ 188.8 t CO₂
  12. 12Mark Carney
    Mark Carney

    Airbus CC-330 Husky (RCAF)

    ≈ 175.8 t CO₂
  13. 13Mohammed bin Salman
    Mohammed bin Salman

    Boeing 747-8 (private state aircraft)

    ≈ 86.4 t CO₂
  14. 14Ursula von der Leyen
    Ursula von der Leyen

    Chartered Airbus A319/A320 (EU air taxi)

    ≈ 76.2 t CO₂
  15. Figures on this board are estimates derived from reported appearances, not measurements.

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