Placing a presenter on a flight to Sweden to fulfill local weather activist Greta Thunberg “felt awkward”, the editor of BBC Radio four’s Immediately programme has admitted.
The 16-year-old campaigner, who was a visitor editor on a particular version of the present, avoids air journey due to its environmental affect.
The BBC despatched presenter Mishal Husain on a return flight to Stockholm to interview her.
Programme editor Sarah Sands instructed the Sunday Occasions: “We did talk about that amongst ourselves. It felt awkward however we didn’t have the time for trains or boats.”
The paper mentioned the journey to Stockholm is estimated to have amounted to virtually half a ton of carbon dioxide emissions per individual.
Greta began a college strike for the local weather outdoors the Swedish parliament in August 2018, which has since unfold everywhere in the world to contain greater than 100,000 schoolchildren.
She takes a stand towards extra polluting types of transport by crusing fairly than flying or travelling in vehicles.
Greta arrived in New York in August after a 15-day, three,000-mile voyage throughout the Atlantic to participate in a UN local weather summit.
She sailed from Plymouth within the UK on a zero-emissions yacht to restrict the carbon footprint of her journey.
She then set sail in November from the US to a UN local weather summit in Madrid, Spain.
Ms Sands mentioned: “Greta isn’t really judgmental in the direction of people, accepting that different folks is not going to all conform to her excessive requirements and asking just for folks to do what they’ll.”
