Cost of Blair’s tour: 700 tons of greenhouse gases

Tony Blair has been accused of failing to take adequate action to counter the environmental damage caused by his round-the-globe farewell tour. An estimated 700 tons of greenhouse gases will have been released by the Prime Minister’s flights to during his last month in power.

Campaigners have claimed that his trips to America, Africa, the Middle East and Europe are an exercise in vanity, warning that his “Blair-miles” would release 80 times as much carbon dioxide as the average person produced in a year. Research by the Liberal Democrats suggested more than 700 tons of CO2 had been released and more than

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