{"id":1962283,"date":"2023-07-01T13:38:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-01T17:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-did-not-track-emissions-from-travel-to-climate-conference-despite-executive-order-report\/"},"modified":"2023-07-01T13:40:09","modified_gmt":"2023-07-01T17:40:09","slug":"biden-admin-did-not-track-emissions-from-travel-to-climate-conference-despite-executive-order-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-did-not-track-emissions-from-travel-to-climate-conference-despite-executive-order-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Admin Ignored Emissions Tracking for Climate Conference Travel: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-admin-did-not-track-emissions-from-travel-to-climate-conference-despite-executive-order-report%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1962283&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The Biden Administration Fails to Track Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Climate Conference Travel<\/h2>\n<p>The Biden administration did not <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/after-ordering-agencies-to-track-emissions-biden-admin-doesnt-know-how-much-fossil-fuel-its-un-climate-trips-burned\/\" title=\"Biden Admin unaware of fossil fuel emissions from UN climate trips despite ordering agencies to track them.\">track greenhouse gas emissions<\/a> caused by its travel for a climate conference sponsored by the United Nations despite an executive order from President Joe Biden, according to the Government Accountability Office (GAO).<\/p>\n<p>A newly released report from the GAO shows that the State Department did not follow an executive order from Biden when it sent a delegation of 259 people to the 27th U.N. Climate Change Conference of the Parties in Egypt in November 2022. The report also noted that emissions related to the same conference the previous year were not tracked.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>&#8220;An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-did-not-track-emissions-from-travel-to-climate-conference-despite-executive-order-report\/\" title=\"Biden Admin Ignored Emissions Tracking for Climate Conference Travel: Report\">executive order requires federal agencies<\/a> to track and reduce emissions from air travel and other sources with the goal of achieving net-zero government emissions by 2050. However, the State Department did not calculate emissions from travel to these conferences,&#8221;<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The executive order in question comes from December 2021, which was after the 26th U.N. climate conference which Biden attended.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>&#8220;State officials told GAO that they did not have a systematic way to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joni-ernst-reveals-biden-administration-excessive-fossil-fuel-usage-and-travel-while-promoting-green-agenda\/\" title=\"Joni Ernst exposes Biden administration's hypocritical fossil fuel usage and travel amidst green agenda promotion.\">calculate greenhouse gas emissions<\/a> from U.S. delegation travel to the United Nation\u2019s Conference of the Parties 26 and 27 or any past meetings of the Conference of the Parties. State is developing methods to estimate future travel emissions, according to State officials,&#8221;<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In its official response, the department said that it agreed with the &#8220;thrust of the recommendation,&#8221; and proposed tracking emissions from official department travel to all meetings.<\/p>\n<p>The report comes after Sens. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Tom Cotton (R-AR), and Joni Ernst (R-IA) all requested that the GAO look into whether the department was complying with the order.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u200b\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILY WIRE APP<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Americans are tired of bureaucrats in Washington, D.C. who don\u2019t practice what they preach when it comes to protecting the environment,&#8221; Capito told POLITICO in response to the report.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the Biden administration, the same people who are closing down power plants across the country and forcing Americans to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/imagine-if-trump-had-said-that-jesse-watters-and-dagen-mcdowell-say-reporters-would-have-seen-bidens-joke-as-a-threat-from-trump\/\" title=\"\u2018Imagine If Trump Had Said That\u2019: Jesse Watters And Dagen McDowell Say Reporters Would Have Seen Biden\u2019s Joke As A Threat From Trump\">buy electric vehicles<\/a> are also the ones flying to climate conferences and using fossil fuels without apology,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p>While the Biden administration has publicly demanded a transition to green energy and emphasized concerns about the climate, many officials in the administration have taken heat for seeming to dismiss concerns about the impact of their own travel on the climate.<\/p>\n<p>John Kerry, Biden\u2019s climate czar was widely criticized after it was reported that his family\u2019s private jet had emitted 300 metric tons of carbon during Biden\u2019s time as president.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden to track greenhouse gas emissions caused by its travel for a UN climate conference. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) revealed this in a report. 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