I think an average US person's carbon emissions for a year are about 15 tons.
He claims he's offsetting his carbon emissions "by buying clean aviation fuel and funding carbon capture and funding low cost housing projects to use electricity instead of natural gas and so I have been able to eliminate it and it was amazing to me how expensive that was, that cost to be green".
I assume by "clean aviation fuel" he means sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), which is biofuel made from recycled cooking oil and other waste materials.
[1] https://www.newsweek.com/bill-gates-defends-using-private-je...
World: "But you do."
Gates: "I'm responsible about it."
That'll go over well.
Yes, it appears "clean aviation fuel" refers only to the feed stock, not the energy used to produce the fuel, nor "its total climate impact, including non-CO2 gasses and the fact they are emitted directly into the atmosphere." (quoting Vice).
> Huber contrasts the relative anonymity of the “ban private jets” movement—such as it is—with the widespread press coverage of flight shaming, which seeks to make people feel bad for flying and the resultant emissions, as “blind on the social side of the issues.” The common approaches to curtailing commercial flying, such as taxing flights more, will hurt the people who rarely more than the wealthy who can already afford to fly often. It’s an issue sensitive to him personally, since his mother is Colombian but lives in Europe. The only way she can realistically see her family is to fly. He doesn’t understand why people like her are being nudged to fly less or not at all while the most polluting people in the world aren’t even being urged to travel commercially.
