Private Jet, Business Class Climate Tax Is Backed by Spain (1)

Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Friday outlined plans to tax commercial flights and private jets, an initiative meant to combat planet-warming pollution from aviation that could hike the cost of business travel.

“We are working together with other countries to tax premium-class flights and private jets,” Sánchez told delegates at a summit in Belém, Brazil, that serves as a prelude to the United Nations COP30 climate conference beginning on Monday. “It is only fair that those who have more — and pollute more — pay their fair share.”

Sánchez’s comments foreshadow an expected declaration at COP30 by a number ...