Carbon dioxide emissions from private jets have increased by 46% in the last five years, according to a study published Thursday in the journal Nature Communications Earth & Environment.

Carbon pollution from private jets has soared in the past five years, with most of those small planes spewing more heat-trapping carbon dioxide in about two hours of flying than the average person ...

Roughly a quarter million of the world's wealthiest individuals, collectively worth $31 trillion, produced 17.2 million tons (15.6 million metric tons) of carbon dioxide from private jet flights ...

About 51% of those private jets burn at least 239 gallons of fuel per hour. That’s translates to more carbon emissions in two hours and one minute than the IEA’s estimate of the average person ...

Carbon pollution from private jets has soared in the past five years, with most of those small planes spewing more heat-trapping carbon dioxide in about two hours of flying than the average person ...

Carbon pollution from private jets has soared in the past five years, with most of those small planes spewing more heat-trapping carbon dioxide in about two hours of flying than the average person ...

The highest emitting private jet user that the team tracked — but did not identify by name — spewed 2,645 tons (2,400 metric tons) of carbon dioxide in plane use, Gossling said.

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