THE Scottish government must turbocharge talks with Westminster to tax private jets and curb the “reckless pollution” that is fuelling the climate crisis, Oxfam Scotland has urged.

The charity warns in a report today that emissions from the private jets of 23 billionaires are the equivalent of 35 million train journeys between Edinburgh Waverley and Glasgow Queen Street. 

Slapping a tax on the nearly 13,000 private flights in Scotland last year could have raised almost £30m, or £21m if flights to remote islands were exempted, it said.