Biden’s State Department and Climate Change Hypocrisy
State Department officials traveled overseas recently and, in so doing, defied President Joe Biden’s executive order to monitor their greenhouse gas emissions.
The State Department’s two destinations: the 2021 United Nations (UN) Climate Change Conference in 2021 in Glasgow, Scotland and the 2022 UN Climate Change Conference in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.
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This is according to a report that the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) published late last month.
These bureaucrats could have spared Mother Earth more of their carbon footprints by attending the two conferences virtually. They also could have spared the taxpayers of more of their hard-earned money. These officials chose not to do so.
“State Department officials told us that there is no substitute for attending Conference of the Parties meetings in person, because negotiations are complex and typically run all day and night for a number of days,” according to the GAO report.
“Specifically, they said that informal side discussions are an essential mode of reaching agreement and that such interactions would be almost impossible to replicate in a virtual setting.”
Per Biden’s executive order, federal agencies must track and reduce greenhouse gas emissions from aviation travel and other sources.
Exactly 191 people from the Executive Branch traveled to the Glasgow conference (COP26) as members of the U.S. delegation. Exactly 259 people traveled to the conference in Egypt (COP27).
“According to the United Kingdom government’s report, greenhouse gas emissions from aviation travel to COP26 were significant in comparison to estimated total emissions from the event,” the GAO said.
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“Approximately 72 percent of the greenhouse gas calculated residual emissions from the event came from international aviation.”
Biden wants the United States to reach zero net greenhouse gas emissions no later 2050.
The Heritage Foundation said Biden’s environmental policies will force America to lose $7.7 trillion of gross domestic product (GDP). That’s a loss of $87,000 for a family of four.
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