Private Jet Accountability Project
While all of us suffer extreme heat waves and climate disasters, billionaires and their private-jet habits are causing massive pollution.→ We're building the movement to tax and regulate private jets, and to ensure that the ultra-rich pay what they truly owe.Read our latest findings below, and learn how you can help!
Red Card for Private Jets: World Cup Fans Subsidize High Flyer Lifestyle
We built an open-source tool to track private jets -- and found 92,000 flights to and from World Cup host cities. Then, we calculated the excess carbon pollution they caused.
| World Cup Excess CO₂ |
|---|
| 147.1 kilotons |
(carbon pollution from private-jet flights into/out of 2026 World Cup host cities when hosting games, compared with baseline period)
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About This Project
The Private Jet Accountability Project is run by Inequality.org and the Institute for Policy Studies.You can contact us at [email protected]
Research and Articles
We’ve been writing reports and analysis about private jets for nearly two decades. Take a look at some articles and reports below:
Inequality.org article: The ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Would Subsidize the Billionaire Private Jet Class, by Chuck Collins, July 1, 2025
Inequality.org article: A Discussion on the Viability of ‘Sustainable’ Aviation Fuels, by Chuck Collins, January 14, 2025
Inequality.org article: Tax the Fat Cat Private Jet Class, Invest in Green Transit, by Chuck Collins, July 19, 2023
IPS Report: High Flyers 2023: How Ultra-Rich Private Jet Travel Costs the Rest of Us and Burns Up the Planet, by Chuck Collins, Omar Ocampo, and Kalena Thomhave, May 1, 2023
IPS Report: Hanscom High Flyers: Private Jet Excess Doesn’t Justify Airport Expansion, by Chuck Collins, Kalena Thomhave, Omar Ocampo, Jiajin Wu, October 1, 2023
IPS Report: High Flyers 2017: How the Private Jet Lobby Shifts Costs to the Rest of Us, Threatens our Security, and Fuels a Warming Planet, by Chuck Collins and Josh Hoxie, November 2017
IPS Report: High Flyers: How Private Jet Travel Is Straining the System, Warming the Planet, and Costing You Money, by Chuck Collins, Sarah Anderson, Dedrick Muhammad, Sam Bollier, and Robert Weissman, June 2008
About the PJET software
PJET, the Private Jet Emissions Tracker, uses publicly-broadcast flight data to track origin, destination, and airplane type of almost all flights globally; and an open-source emissions-calculation model to calculate baselines and track real-time carbon pollution from private jets.Researchers / journalists, please get in touch and we can share our hosted instance of this tool with you.
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