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British yacht skipper, 26, wiped out the carbon emissions saved by Greta Thunberg's sail across the Atlantic by flying out to the US to help her




Nikki Henderson, 26, flew to the US to sail 48-foot catamaran the La VagabondeVoyage meant to save approximately 2 or 3 tons of carbon dioxide emissionsBut Ms Henderson's flight to US to skipper vessel likely produced same amount.




tBy JEMMA CARR FOR MAILONLINE

PUBLISHED: 04:40 EST, 1 December 2019 | UPDATED: 03:49 EST, 2 December 2019





A British yacht skipper's flight to the US to help Greta Thunberg sail to Portugal has produced the same amount of carbon emissions the voyage hoped to save.

Nikki Henderson, 26, flew to the US from Britain to sail 48-foot catamaran the La Vagabonde.

The vessel is carrying Miss Thunberg and her father Svante 3,000 miles to Portugal where she will go onto attend the COP 25 climate change talks in Madrid.



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Nikki Henderson's (second left) flight to the US to help Greta Thunberg (centre) sail to Portugal has produced the same amount of carbon emissions the voyage hoped to save. Miss Thunberg can be seen with Australian couple Riley Whitelum (left) and Elayna Carausu (right), and Ms Henderson (second left) on board La Vagabonde



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Ms Henderson was a skipper in three ARC Trans Atlantic races. In two of them, she was the youngest competitor Pictured on the eve of her departure to Portugal

The journey was meant to save approximately two or three tons of carbon dioxide emissions.

But Ms Henderson's flight from Britain to the US likely produced the same amount of emissions the journey hoped to save, countering Ms Thunberg's mission, The Times reports.

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