Texas Democrat Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee introduced a bill to combat ‘White supremacy’ by criminalizing certain forms of hate speech.

After the ill-fated attempt by the Biden administration to monitor Americans’ speech online, Jackson Lee introduced the Leading Against White Supremacy Act of 2023 to assign criminal punishment for certain forms of hate speech.

The bill’s language is broad and could result in people facing criminal charges for sharing hateful content, including on social media.

Under Jackson Lee’s bill, a ‘person engages in a white supremacy inspired hate crime when white supremacy ideology has motivated the planning, development, preparation, or perpetration of actions that constituted a crime or were undertaken in furtherance of activity that, if effectuated, would have constituted a crime.’

The bill would impose criminal penalties for anyone who ‘published material advancing white supremacy, white supremacist ideology, antagonism based on ‘replacement theory,’ or hate speech that vilifies or is otherwise directed against any non-White person or group, and such published material,’ if it was ‘read, heard, or viewed by a person who engaged in the planning, development, preparation, or perpetration of a white supremacy inspired hate crime.’

Jackson Lee’s office did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.

The bill dropped as the GOP-led Congress marches forward into a new term after a turbulent first week of 15 rounds of voting for House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif.

Jackson Lee’s bill is highly unlikely to pass in the GOP-controlled chamber, making it more of a messaging tool than anything else.

Currently, the bill has no cosponsors.

New Mexico’s top prosecutor wants to start a conversation with lawmakers and the governor in hopes of charting a new course for a state beleaguered by violent crime, poor educational outcomes and persistently dismal child welfare rankings.

Attorney General Raúl Torrez, who took office Jan. 1 after serving as the district attorney in New Mexico’s busiest judicial district, wants to focus on the civil rights of children by providing them with legal representation.

The Democrat says New Mexico is off the charts when it comes to abuse and neglect — and creating a special unit within the attorney general’s office could help turn the tide when it comes to combatting adverse childhood experiences that often result in youth ending up in the criminal justice system.

Torrez outlined priorities for his administration and for the legislative session that begins Tuesday in a recent interview with The Associated Press.

While acknowledging the suite of public safety, bail reform and gun control bills to be introduced by lawmakers, he said he wants more of the focus to be on the role that child well-being plays in the state’s problems.

Torrez worked on one of the state’s highest profile child abuse cases while in private practice and was often asked as district attorney about the source of Albuquerque’s crime and public safety problems.

He said there’s been a lot of talk about drugs and guns but he believes it comes back to what happens when children end up in dangerous or destabilized homes or don’t get the help they need in the classroom.

‘The people that we’re trying to detain today are usually kids that have been failed by the system 15 and 20 years before. That’s where they end up,’ he said. ‘And so what I’m trying to do now is move the lens and move my focus not away from public safety, but further upstream to see if there’s a way for us to prevent people from coming into contact with the criminal justice system in the first place.’

Advocates who have been pushing for years for child welfare reforms in New Mexico are excited about the prospects. Some describe it as a ‘public health crisis,’ pointing to scientific research that shows abuse, neglect and other adverse experiences have been known to result in negative outcomes later in life.

New Mexico would join California and other states that have special offices focused on children’s rights or independent oversight panels that monitor child welfare agencies.

West Virginia, for example, has an office dedicated to educational stability for foster youth and juvenile justice and more than a dozen other state legislatures enacted bills in 2022 to establish advisory councils, boards and study committees focused on streamlining child services and accountability.

In New Mexico, the Children, Youth and Families Department has experienced turnover during Democratic Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s administration and the current secretary — retired Supreme Court Justice Barbara Vigil — has vowed to make changes.

The agency has been criticized not only for removing children from their homes faster than they should have but also for not taking them into care when abuse was suspected, resulting in legal action.

Maralyn Beck, executive director of the nonprofit New Mexico Child First Network, described the system as broken and said she’s encouraged by the attorney general’s focus on the issue.

‘Solutions exist,’ she said. ‘We have to prioritize this as a true crisis that needs addressing while understanding we don’t have to reinvent the wheel.’

Veronica Montano-Pilch, executive director of New Mexico Kids Matter, said her organization has about 500 court-appointed volunteers around the state who look out for children as their cases work through the system and working with Torrez’s office would help.

‘Say there’s a waterfall and if you’re at the bottom and you’re just pulling people out, what good is that?’ Montano-Pilch said. ‘They’re already wet, they’re already drowning.’

New Mexico persistently ranks as worst in the U.S. when it comes to factors of child well-being. The latest report by the Annie E. Casey Foundation shows one in four New Mexico children live in poverty and more than one-third have parents without secure employment. New Mexico also has the nation’s highest rate of children suffering from adverse experiences, according to national studies and the state’s top health officials.

Legislation aimed at fixing the problems isn’t new. Last year, lawmakers approved a measure creating a new office that would provide legal representation for certain children, parents and guardians whose children are at risk of being placed in state custody.

However, a bill that would have created an ombudsman oversight position stalled in the state Senate last year.

The attorney general said he believes the level of frustration has reached a point where people are ready for change.

‘They’re tired of seeing broken institutions,’ he said. ‘They’re tired of seeing these kids placed in harm’s way and we have the ability to do something. Other states have these kind of systems in place and I think we’re ready for it here in New Mexico.’

Democratic Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s office slammed the more than six dozen sheriff’s offices that have publicly vowed to defy a gun-control law that bans semiautomatic rifles and other weapons.

‘This is political grandstanding at its worst. The assault weapons ban is the law of Illinois,’ Pritzker’s office told Fox News Digital on Monday. ‘The General Assembly passed the bill and the Governor signed it into law to protect children in schools, worshippers at church, and families at parades from the fear of sudden mass murder.’

The Illinois Senate passed its version of the ‘Protect Illinois Communities Act’ last Monday, which bans so-called assault weapons and high-capacity magazines from being manufactured or sold in the state. Pritzker signed the bill into law last Tuesday, prohibiting the manufacture and sale of semiautomatic rifles and pistols, .50-caliber guns, as well as attachments that can increase a gun’s fire rate.

At least 74 sheriff offices have since publicly posted statements in opposition of the law, with many calling it unconstitutional.

‘Part of my duties that I accepted upon being sworn into office was to protect the rights provided to all of us, in the Constitution,’ Edwards County Sheriff Darby Boewe said in a Facebook post.

‘One of those rights enumerated is the right of the people to KEEP and BEAR ARMS provided under the 2nd Amendment. The right to keep and bear arms for defense of life, liberty and property is regarded as an inalienable right by the people.’

The Illinois Sheriff’s Association said in a statement this month that it has opposed the bill since its inception.

‘We, as a representative of chief law enforcement officials throughout Illinois, are very concerned and disturbed by the ongoing and escalating violence throughout our State and Country,’ the statement, released Wednesday, said.

‘We are always supportive of new tools, techniques and laws that assist us in preventing and holding accountable those that wage efforts of harm and violence on others. However, this new law does not do that.’

When approached about the dozens of sheriff’s offices vowing the flout the law, Prizker’s office told Fox News Digital that law enforcement offices don’t have the authority to ‘pick and choose which laws they support.’

‘Sheriffs have a constitutional duty to uphold the laws of the state, not pick and choose which laws they support and when. We’re confident that this law will hold up to any future legal challenges, but again, it is the current law of our state. Anyone who advocates for law, order, and public safety and then refuses to follow the law is in violation of their oath of office,’ the governor’s office said. 

Gun dealers and Second Amendment advocates have said they are readying lawsuits to challenge the ban.

President Joe Biden is fortifying his Rehoboth, Delaware, beach house with a taxpayer-funded wall, while strongly opposing a wall at the southern border amid the migrant crisis and as his administration deals with the discovery of classified documents in his other Wilmington, Delaware, home.

In the first 100 days of fiscal year 2023, beginning on Oct. 1, more than 718,000 migrants tried to enter into the U.S. through the southern border, yet Biden has refused to build a barrier to manage the influx of illegal crossings.

While the president remains against building a wall to control the ongoing border crisis, construction of a large white fence is underway at the president’s vacation home. The wall is expected to cost taxpayers $490,324.

Plans for Biden’s wall began in 2021, after the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) approved a contract for more security at the residence. Fox News Digital captured photos of the new fence around the Rehoboth, Delaware, beach house, which is expected to be completed in September.

Ahead of the 2020 presidential election, Biden insisted that ‘not another foot’ of the border wall would be built if he were elected.

‘There will not be another foot of wall construction in my administration,’ Biden said during an interview. ‘I’m going to make sure that we have border protection, but it’s going to be based on making sure that we use high-tech capacity to deal with it. And at the ports of entry – that’s where all the bad stuff is happening.’

Despite vowing that not ‘another foot’ of border wall would be built during his time as president, his administration approved the construction of a border wall in Yuma, Arizona, in July 2022.

In December, however, the administration sued Arizona for using shipping containers to create a border wall that would prevent migrants from entering the state.

Biden recently visited the border for the first time since becoming president in 2021, but avoided areas where Trump-era walls still stood.

The White House counsel’s office told Fox News Monday that there are no visitor logs for the president’s home in Wilmington, Delaware, after classified documents were found there in an unsecured location.

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., is vowing to keep pressing the Biden administration for answers on the classified documents.

Fox News’ Brandon Gillespie and Anders Hagstrom contributed to this report.

EXCLUSIVE: The White House on Monday blasted House Republicans for launching ‘hypocritical’ investigations into President Biden’s improper retention of classified records, and accused the GOP of ‘politicizing’ the matter while defending Biden’s cooperation with the special counsel probe.

‘House Republicans are playing politics in a shamelessly hypocritical attempt to attack President Biden,’ White House spokesman Ian Sams told Fox News Digital.

The White House’s comments came after it was revealed that classified records were found inside the Washington D.C., offices of the Penn Biden Center think tank on Nov. 2, 2022, but only revealed to the public last week. A second stash of classified documents were found last week inside the garage of the president’s Wilmington, Delaware home, prompting Attorney General Merrick Garland to appoint a special counsel to investigate the matter.

Over the weekend, additional classified documents were found in the president’s home.

On Capitol Hill, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, notified the Justice Department of his investigation into the president’s ‘mishandling’ of classified records and the Justice Department’s probe into the matter. House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., is also investigating the matter, telling Fox News Digital on Monday that he will ‘continue to press’ the Biden administration for answers about who had access to the classified documents.

But on Monday, the White House fired back and accused House Republicans of launching political investigations, while urging the public to be skeptical of those efforts.

‘House Republicans have no credibility,’ Sams said. ‘Their demands should be met with skepticism and they should face questions themselves about why they are politicizing this issue and admitting they actually do not care about the underlying classified material.’

Sams was referring to comments made by House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer, R-Ky., to CNN on Sunday, in which he said his ‘biggest concern isn’t the classified documents,’ but rather ‘how there’s such a discrepancy in how former President Trump was treated’ during the FBI’s unprecedented raid on Mar-a-Lago.

The White House also pointed to Comer’s past comments about the classified records held at Mar-a-Lago, telling Fox News Digital that Comer downplayed that scenario, but now is finding it ‘troubling that classified documents have been improperly stored at the home of President Biden.’

‘As President Biden has said repeatedly, he takes classified information seriously, which is why he immediately directed his team to ensure the documents were sent back to the government,’ Sams said.

Sams told Fox News Digital that the president is ‘doing the right thing and is cooperating fully with a thorough review.’

That ‘thorough review’ is no longer just a review. The Justice Department had been reviewing the matter, beginning in November, when Biden aides first found the records. But the discovery of additional classified records last week led Garland to appoint former U.S. Attorney Robert Hur as special counsel to lead the investigation.

The White House continues to stress that the president is cooperating with that investigation and cooperated with the previous review.

The comments come after the White House Counsel’s Office on Monday morning said there are no visitors logs for Biden’s home in Wilmington.

Republicans on Capitol Hill—specifically Comer—demanded the visitor logs this weekend following revelations that Biden’s lawyers had discovered a stash of classified documents inside the home’s garage. While it is common practice to keep comprehensive visitor logs at the White House, Biden’s lawyers say no such record exists for his home in Delaware.

‘Like every President in decades of modern history, his personal residence is personal,’ the White House Counsel’s Office told Fox News Digital on Monday. ‘But upon taking office, President Biden restored the norm and tradition of keeping White House visitors logs, including publishing them regularly, after the previous administration ended them.’

The discovery of improperly held classified records at Biden’s office in November came just months after the FBI conducted an unprecedented raid on former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home.

During the raid on Aug. 8, 2022, the FBI seized classified records, including some marked as top secret.

According to the property receipt, FBI agents took approximately 20 boxes of items from the premises, including one set of documents marked as ‘Various classified/TS/SCI documents,’ which refers to top secret/sensitive compartmentalized information.

Records covered by that government classification level could include human intelligence and information that, if disclosed, could jeopardize relations between the U.S. and other nations, as well as the lives of intelligence operatives abroad. However, the classification also encompasses national security information related to the daily operations of the president of the U.S. 

Trump and his legal team dispute the classification and argued that they were cooperating with the Justice Department and FBI ahead of the unprecedented pre-dawn raid of the former president’s Palm Beach home.

Garland, on Nov. 18, appointed former DOJ official Jack Smith as special counsel to investigate the issue of classified records being held at Mar-a-Lago.

When he appointed Smith, Garland and top DOJ officials were simultaneously conducting an internal review of President Biden’s mishandling of classified records. That review, and the discovery of classified records at Biden’s office, was not disclosed to the public until last week.

It is unclear what level of classification the documents found in Biden’s office, garage, or home have.

But with regard to the issue of classified documents in general, both the White House and House Republicans are claiming a double standard.

The White House is claiming Republicans did not care about classified records when Trump records were in question, but instead, cared about the treatment of the former president by the FBI.

Republicans, on the other hand, claim the White House and the Biden Administration weaponized the DOJ against Trump, and are now downplaying the fact that Biden improperly retained classified records.

North Carolina’s Division of Motor Vehicles has now OK’d more than 200 phrases that had been blocked from being affixed to vanity license plates, including some related to sexual orientation.

Among the terms removed from the DMV’s extensive do-not-issue list for personalized plates following a review late last year were ‘GAYPRIDE,’ ‘LESBIAN’ and ‘QUEER,’ WFDD-FM reported.

Such entries prompted DMV Commissioner Wayne Goodwin to launch a formal review of the list – containing over 9,000 items – for the first time in its two-decade history, according to the radio station.

‘Anything on the do-not-issue list should not include the LGBT community,’ Goodwin said. ‘I don’t know how long the terms that relate to the LGBT community were on that list. But with my administration they are coming off.’

The prohibited list, however, still includes ‘BISEXUAL’ and ‘GAYS0K,’ as well some words related to reproduction and race.

Goodwin said the review process is ongoing, and the DMV welcomes public feedback.

‘Things can slip through,’ Goodwin said. ‘My aim is to be consistent with our approach, no plates of hate in this state.’

Before the recent purging of phrases, DMV employees read through the list and referred questionable entries to a review committee that included staffers from the Department of Transportation, which oversees DMV, and its Office of Civil Rights. Over two dozen of the 239 items removed were related to the LGBTQ community, the station said.

Goodwin said his office also recently recalled eight plates after receiving public complaints. All of them were labeled antisemitic, with some spelled in nontraditional ways.

‘Folks are crafty and conniving with the combination of letters,’ Goodwin said.

U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is expected to veto a Scottish bill aimed at granting 16- and 17-year-olds access to gender recognition certificates Monday.

The Scottish National Party (SNP) passed legislation in December allowing residents to obtain a gender recognition certificate (GRC) without a medical diagnosis and also lowered the age requirement to 16. U.K. law allows the British Parliament four weeks to weigh in on Scottish legislation. That deadline will pass Wednesday, and Sunak is expected to veto the bill before then, according to the Express.

‘Lots of people have got concerns about this new Bill in Scotland, about the impact it will have on women’s and children’s safety,’ Sunak said. ‘So I think it is completely reasonable for the UK Government to have a look at it, understand what the consequences are for women and children’s safety in the rest of the UK, and then decide on what the appropriate course of action is.’

In addition to removing the requirement for a medical diagnosis, the Scottish bill would also allow residents to apply for a GRC after just three months of living under a new gender identity, down from the previous two years.

Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon lambasted the previous system as ‘intrusive, traumatic and dehumanizing.’

Scotland’s Social Justice Secretary Shona Robinson vowed last month that the Scottish parliament plans to ‘vigorously contest’ any attempts by Westminster to ‘undermine the democratic will’ of Scotland’s government.

U.K. media has noted that under Section 35 of the 1998 Scotland Act, Westminster can ban Scottish legislation if it thinks it has an ‘adverse effect’ on laws that otherwise fall under British Parliament jurisdiction.

Sunak’s government has expressed concern about how the bill will affect single-sex areas for women and kids.

‘We share the concerns that others – including the Equality and Human Rights Commission and the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women and Girls – have with the Bill, particularly around safety issues for women and children,’ a government spokeswoman told Express on Monday.

‘We are looking closely at these issues, and also the ramifications for the 2010 Equality Act and other UK wide legislation,’ she added.

Sunak’s move would be the first time a U.K. Prime Minister exercised the authority to veto Scottish legislation. The move may give rise to further anti-British sentiment in Scotland, which tried and failed to hold an independence referendum last year.

Fox News’ Peter Aitken contributed to this report.

Michigan state government is awash in tax dollars.

The state could end the fiscal year with a surplus of $5.1 billion in the general fund and $4.1 billion in the school aid fund, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s budget director said Friday. The budget year ends on Sept. 30.

Chris Harkins said nearly $6 billion of that total is for one-time use.

‘We’re still in a very strong position on the balance sheet,’ he said.

The House Fiscal Agency predicts that revenues have been running high enough to automatically trigger a drop in the income tax rate to 4.05% from 4.25%, under a 2015 law.

‘We simply don’t know what’s going to happen because the books are not closed yet,’ state Treasurer Rachael Eubanks said.

Separately, Whitmer has proposed removing a tax on pensions and increasing a tax credit for people with low or moderate incomes.

Republicans, who no longer have a majority in the Legislature, would welcome a broad tax cut.

‘The hardworking people of our great state do not need more government bureaucracy. They need to keep more of what they earn; after all it is their money in the first place,’ said Sen. Jon Bumstead, R-North Muskegon.

Michigan’s unemployment rate should be down to around 3.9%, a pre-pandemic figure, by the end of 2025, said University of Michigan economic forecaster Gabe Ehrlich.

San Francisco’s reparations committee has proposed paying each Black longtime resident $5 million and granting total debt forgiveness due to the decades of ‘systematic repression’ faced by the local Black community.

The San Francisco African American Reparations Advisory Committee, which advises the city on developing a plan for reparations for Black residents, released its draft report last month to address reparations – not for slavery, since California was not technically a slave state, but ‘to address the public policies explicitly created to subjugate Black people in San Francisco by upholding and expanding the intent and legacy of chattel slavery.’

‘While neither San Francisco, nor California, formally adopted the institution of chattel slavery, the tenets of segregation, white supremacy and systematic repression and exclusion of Black people were codified through legal and extralegal actions, social codes, and judicial enforcement,’ the draft states.

The draft plan includes a long list of financial recommendations for Black San Francisco residents, including a one-time, lump sum payment of $5 million to each eligible individual.

‘A lump sum payment would compensate the affected population for the decades of harms that they have experienced, and will redress the economic and opportunity losses that Black San Franciscans have endured, collectively, as the result of both intentional decisions and unintended harms perpetuated by City policy,’ the draft states.

To be eligible for the program, the applicant must be 18 years old and have identified as Black or African American on public documents for at least 10 years. They must also prove at least two of eight additional criteria, choosing from a list that includes, ‘Born in San Francisco between 1940 and 1996 and has proof of residency in San Francisco for at least 13 years,’ and/or, ‘Personally, or the direct descendant of someone, incarcerated by the failed War on Drugs.’

The plan also calls on the city to supplement lower-income recipients’ income to reflect the Area Median Income (AMI), about $97,000, annually for at least 250 years. 

‘Racial disparities across all metrics have led to a significant racial wealth gap in the City of San Francisco,’ it argues. ‘By elevating income to match AMI, Black people can better afford housing and achieve a better quality of life.’

The plan also seeks to establish ‘a comprehensive debt forgiveness program’ that clears each eligible person’s student and housing loans, credit card debt, etc.

‘Black households are more likely to hold costlier, riskier debt, and are more likely to have outstanding student loan debt,’ the draft explains. ‘When this is combined with lower household incomes, it can create an inescapable cycle of debt. Eliminating this debt gives Black households an opportunity to build wealth.’

The committee will submit its final proposal to Mayor London Breed, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and the San Francisco Human Rights Commission in June.

Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin told the San Francisco Chronicle he hopes the plan is approved.

‘There are so many efforts that result in incredible reports that just end up gathering dust on a shelf,’ Peskin said. ‘We cannot let this be one of them.’

The committee did not respond to Fox News Digital’s inquiry.

Meanwhile, House Democrats are pushing to establish a reparations committee at the federal level.

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, and 52 House Democrats proposed legislation last week seeking reparations and a national apology for slavery.

Greenpeace International, a global climate group that opposes fossil fuels, released a study showing that elites largely travel to the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) annual conference via private jets.

The analysis – published late last week by Greenpeace and the environmental research firm CE Delft – showed that there was a significant uptick in private jet flights, many of which were short-distance, to airports near WEF’s headquarters in Davos, Switzerland, during the 2022 summit. The group released the study ahead of WEF’s 2023 summit, which is slated to kick off this week.

‘Europe is experiencing the warmest January days ever recorded and communities around the world are grappling with extreme weather events supercharged by the climate crisis,’ Greenpeace campaigner Klara Maria Schenk said in a statement Friday. ‘Meanwhile, the rich and powerful flock to Davos in ultra-polluting, socially inequitable private jets to discuss climate and inequality behind closed doors.’

‘Davos has a perfectly adequate railway station, still these people can’t even be bothered to take the train for a trip as short as 21 [kilometers],’ she continued. ‘Do we really believe that these are the people to solve the problems the world faces?’

The study determined that 1,040 flights on private jets were recorded arriving and departing seven airstrips close to Davos during the week of the 2022 WEF conference. The private jet air traffic in the region represented an uptick of about 500 private flights relative to weeks before and after the conference. Therefore, Greenpeace estimated that those 500 flights, or 48% of all private jets in the area that week, were transporting conference participants.

A sizable number of the jets recorded short-distance flights with dozens flying less than 100 kilometers, the equivalent of 62 miles, to Davos. Greenpeace argued the majority of the flights could have been replaced with train rides.

In addition, private jets flying into the Davos area during the week of the 2022 forum emitted a whopping 9,700 metric tons of carbon dioxide. The study attributed 7,400 metric tons to planes servicing the conference. By comparison, the average person worldwide has an estimated annual carbon footprint of four tons.

‘Given that 80% of the world’s population has never even flown, but suffers from the consequences of climate-damaging aviation emissions, and that the WEF claims to be committed to the 1.5°C Paris Climate Target, this annual private jet bonanza is a distasteful masterclass in hypocrisy,’ Greenpeace’s Schenk added. 

‘Private jets must be consigned to history if we are to have a green, just and safe future for all,’ she said. ‘It’s about time our political leaders start to lead by example instead of producing hot air in secret meetings with big business.’

On Monday, in protest of WEF attendees’ heavy private jet use, a local Swiss environmental group conducted a four-hour blockade at one of the Davos-area airports. The group said WEF was the ‘root cause’ of the global issues it sought to fix.

Among WEF’s main agenda items are areas of environmental policy. The conference’s programs highlights the top priority as ‘addressing the current energy and food crises in the context of a new system for energy, climate and nature.’

In the past, billionaires and world leaders like John Kerry, Bill Gates and George Soros have attended the Davos summit.

The WEF conference has also previously faced attacks over hypocrisy related to its participants’ private jet usage.

In 2019, the private jet firm Air Charter Service released its own study showing that about 1,500 private jets flew into airports near Davos for WEF’s annual meeting that year, sparking outrage among environmentalists. 

The WEF responded, saying the figure was likely an overestimate, but admitted the more accurate number was closer to 500 private jets, a year-over-year decline that it argued showed participants were ‘taking the environmental impact of their travel more seriously.’

‘We have been offering incentives to participants to use public transport for some years,’ WEF said in a statement in January 2019. ‘We also ask that they share planes if they have to use them; something that has been gaining popularity in recent years.’