EXPERTS have called for a new tax on private jets as Britain’s richest 0.1 per cent emit 12 times more greenhouse gases from transport than the average person.

In a report published today, the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) think tank warns that half of all transport emissions come from just a fifth of the population.

Britain has made limited progress over the past three decades in reducing greenhouse gases from transport, which is now the country’s worst sector for emissions, the report warns.