By Claire Ellicott Political Correspondent For The Daily Mail
Published: 22:01 BST, 6 May 2019 | Updated: 23:12 BST, 6 May 2019
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Sadiq Khan has been branded a hypocrite for campaigning on green issues while he and his team have racked up enough air miles to reach the Moon since he became Mayor of London.
Mr Khan and his senior staff have travelled 280,000 miles around the world despite his warnings of a ‘climate emergency’ threatening the planet.
Their globetrotting has produced 180 tons of carbon dioxide – so much that it would reportedly take two-and-a-half acres of trees 34 years to cleanse it from the atmosphere.
Sadiq Khan has been branded a hypocrite for campaigning on green issues while he and his team have racked up enough air miles to reach the Moon since he became Mayor of London
It comes after actress Emma Thompson flew first class to New York on Friday, having flown from Los Angeles to London at Easter to join the Extinction Rebellion climate change protests that brought the capital to a standstill. At the time, she said: ‘We should all fly less.’
Mr Khan is keen to flaunt his credentials as a green campaigner, and met the eco protesters last week.
Last year, he declared a ‘climate emergency’ and vowed to step in if the Government failed to act.
The mayor insisted he and his aides were ‘doing everything in our power’ to slow climate change.
But records from City Hall reveal that he has travelled nearly 32,000 miles on official business outside the UK
