{"id":236166,"date":"2023-12-16T23:01:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-16T23:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mystylenews.com\/?p=236166"},"modified":"2023-12-16T23:01:00","modified_gmt":"2023-12-16T23:01:00","slug":"globetrotting-labour-mayor-runs-up-22500-air-miles-in-three-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mystylenews.com\/world-news\/globetrotting-labour-mayor-runs-up-22500-air-miles-in-three-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Globetrotting Labour mayor runs up 22,500 air miles in THREE MONTHS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><span>EXCLUSIVE<\/span> Globetrotting Labour mayor runs up 22,500 air miles in just THREE MONTHS &#8211; all the while lecturing about the need to tackle climate change<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Marvin Rees has visited the US, France , Rwanda and Dubai since September\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A globetrotting Labour mayor has clocked up 22,500 air miles in three months while lecturing about the need to tackle climate change.<\/p>\n<p>Bristol&#8217;s mayor Marvin Rees has visited the US, France, Rwanda and Dubai since September, in a hectic travel schedule that has involved seven separate flights, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Rees tonight faced accusations of double standards after it emerged that he spoke about how cities can cut emissions during a five-day visit to the US in September and during a trip to the COP28 UN climate-change conference in Dubai earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>Last year he introduced a Clean Air Zone in Bristol under which non-compliant cars face a \u00a39 daily charge. &#8216;It smacks of hypocrisy,&#8217; Councillor Mark Weston, leader of the Tory group on Bristol Council, said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;He brought in a Clean Air Zone, which hits hard-working Bristolians with fines every time they drive into the city centre, and yet there he is going around the world polluting the atmosphere with never a care in the world.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/16\/22\/79043191-12872465-Bristol_s_mayor_Marvin_Rees_has_visited_the_US_France_Rwanda_and-m-4_1702766149436.jpg\" height=\"422\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Bristol&#8217;s mayor Marvin Rees has visited the US, France, Rwanda and Dubai since September, in a hectic travel schedule that has involved seven separate flights<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/16\/21\/79043215-0-image-a-4_1702761157486.jpg\" height=\"417\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Last year Mr Rees (pictured) introduced a Clean Air Zone in Bristol under which non-compliant cars face a \u00a39 daily charge<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;He was elected to be the Mayor of Bristol, not an international representative for whatever ideal he is currently pushing. He should be in Bristol, governing Bristol.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Mr Rees was attending the Commonwealth Local Government Conference in Kigali, Rwanda, last month when 400 residents of a tower block in Bristol had to be evacuated after their homes were deemed unsafe.<\/p>\n<p>Climate campaigners Flight Free UK worked out that Mr Rees&#8217;s flights since September have created almost 4.6 tons of carbon dioxide per passenger.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s almost the entire annual carbon footprint of the average UK resident, which in 2022 stood at five tons.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/16\/21\/79043347-0-image-a-5_1702761336032.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Mr Rees spoke about how cities can cut emissions during a trip to the COP28 UN climate-change conference in Dubai earlier this month<\/p>\n<p>The group&#8217;s director, Anna Hughes, said: &#8216;It&#8217;s unclear why a local mayor is flying to an international conference such as COP.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;In this time of climate emergency, we should question very carefully whether it&#8217;s necessary to burn tons of fossil fuels in order to appear in person at events that require a long-haul flight.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Mr Rees last month defended his decision to attend COP28, insisting Bristol &#8216;is a Premiership city that risks being relegated to League Two&#8217; if he didn&#8217;t attend.<\/p>\n<p>He added: &#8216;I just think it&#8217;s part of the job. But I get it. I get it takes a few steps to be able to understand that.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Last night neither Mr Rees nor Bristol City Council would comment further about his flights.<\/p>\n<p>The MoS last year revealed how Mr Rees made a 9,000-mile round trip to give a 14-minute speech at a conference in Vancouver, Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12872465\/Labour-mayor-air-miles-THREE-MONTHS-climate-change.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EXCLUSIVE Globetrotting Labour mayor runs up 22,500 air miles in just THREE MONTHS &#8211; all the while lecturing about the need to tackle climate change&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236165,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Globetrotting Labour mayor runs up 22,500 air miles in THREE MONTHS - My Style News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/mystylenews.com\/world-news\/globetrotting-labour-mayor-runs-up-22500-air-miles-in-three-months\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Globetrotting Labour mayor runs up 22,500 air miles in THREE MONTHS - My Style News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"EXCLUSIVE Globetrotting Labour mayor runs up 22,500 air miles in just THREE MONTHS &#8211; 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