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No, Spain's environment minister didn’t take a private jet to a climate conference

People have been sharing this video claiming that it shows that the Spanish environment minister went to a climate conference in a private jet. That’s not true, however – she actually travelled there by car. © Observers

A video that has garnered tens of millions of views claims to show Spain's Minister for Ecological Transition Teresa Ribera using a private jet to travel to a climate conference and then hopping on a bicycle to travel the last few kilometres – just in time for the cameras, of course. Some social media users think that they’ve even identified the jet that the minister used. However, in reality, the jet story is fake – Ribera travelled by car to the town where the conference was being held and then biked from her hotel to the conference centre the next day. 

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