Date published: 2005/03/05
The BBC says:
The UK is set to announce a scheme to promote clean energy in developing countries by paying into a fund every time a minister or civil servant takes a trip by air.
The idea is to offset the climate change impact of the carbon dioxide emissions from flying.
The scheme will begin next month in at least three departments - The Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), the Foreign Office and the Department for International Development (Dfid).
These are the major travellers and the fund from their flights could raise around £500,000 a year.
The proceeds will be invested in projects such as solar cookers in India, home insulation in the townships of South Africa and micro-hydro in Sri Lanka.
Pathetic, pathetic, pathetic. It's not as if the politicians and bureaucrats are paying for this out of their own salary. So why would they care how much this costs. Some of these people will probably even be happier to take more flights as they can thus force more money to be spent on foreign aid, and pretend they are "saving" the world. The only impact of this crackpot scheme is that more tax will be have to be paid by the workers of Britain to fund it.
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