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Topics: Amazon, Celebrity, Jeff Bezos, Travel, Climate Change
Britt Jones
Topics: Amazon, Celebrity, Jeff Bezos, Travel, Climate Change
Jeff Bezos’s wedding is going to be a monumental event, but so will be the amount of CO2 emitted into the atmosphere.
There’s nothing like the glitz and glam of a celebrity wedding. There’s A-listers, billionaires, and décor that would make anyone jealous. However, there’s something a little different between the Amazon CEO’s wedding and one that you’d find in your home state: the use of private jets.
Bezos’ and Lauren Sanchez's upcoming nuptials has already caused controversy over the cost, and fact that protesters have
been unhappy with him allegedly ‘renting’ out the entire city. And now, his emissions are on the hit list.
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Bezos and Sanchez became engaged in May 2023 and are now set to tie the knot this week, as per reports.
The pair are said to be marrying in Venice, Italy, on June 27, with the likes of Katy Perry, Oprah Winfrey, Mick Jagger, and Ivanka Trump expected to attend their wedding.
Last year, it came to light that they would be spending $600 million on their nuptials, but the Amazon founder refuted these claims.
New reports have instead suggested that Bezos and Sanchez could be spending between $15 million to $20 million, per Mail Online.
That’s a lot of money.
Thankfully, it probably doesn’t include private car hires for their guests, as there are a lot of people choosing to fly in the sky to the idyllic wedding.
While most people drive, or fly commercially across state, Bezos’s pals will be jetting off from all over the world in their own privately owned planes, which have now been calculated to emit the same amount of carbon dioxide emissions as 27,300 cars produce daily.
According to the United States Environmental Protection Agency, a typical passenger vehicle emits about 4.6 metric tons (4600 kg) of CO2 per year, and if you do the working out, you’ll see just how much that comes to each day.
Now, if you’re bad at math, I’ll do it for you, so you can put your calculator away.
4600 kg divided by 365 days of a year is 12.6 kg daily emissions.
According to the Italian publication Affaritaliani, around 96 private jets are set to land at the city for the three-day event.
A 2024 study which looked into private aviation and its contributions to climate change reported that ‘private aviation contributed at least 15.6 Mt CO2 in direct emissions in 2023, or about 3.6 t (tonnes) CO2 per flight’.
So, if we take 3.6 tonnes of CO2 created by one flight and multiply it by the 96 planes expected to fly to Bezos’ wedding, you’d get 354 tonnes (or 345,000 kg).
If each car produces 12.6kg, and a plane produces 345,0000kg, all we need to do is divide the planes’ CO2 by a car’s daily CO2, to find out how many cars it would take to produce the same level of CO2.
Does that make sense? It should.
345,000kg divided by 12.6kg is 27,300 cars.
When you think about it, that’s a hefty amount of CO2 for 3-day celebrations.
That’s not even taking into consideration the flight home…