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COP28 Has “Biggest Carbon Footprint” of Any Climate Summit

by Toby Young
1 December 2023 1:00 PM

At least 400,000 people are expected to travel to Dubai for COP28 – nearly all of them by air – to discuss how to reduce carbon emissions. The Telegraph has more.

COP28 will have the biggest carbon footprint in the history of the annual climate summit because the UAE has invited record numbers of people, experts have said.

At least 400,000 people are expected to travel to Dubai for the two-week event, organisers claimed, the biggest attendance on record.

This includes 97,000 official delegates, more than double Cop26 in Glasgow, the previous biggest of the summits.

The Glasgow summit led to emissions that were equivalent to the annual carbon footprint of around 8,000 British residents, mostly stemming from transport to the conference itself.

“Given the number of people expected here, yes this probably will have the highest carbon footprint of any COP to date,” said Richard Black, senior associate of the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit think tank.

He added that the size of that footprint “is absolutely dwarfed by the emission cuts that a deal can produce” and put pressure on the UAE to deliver a good outcome.

“So the ball is really at the feet of the UAE – they’ve chosen to host the biggest Cop in history, now they need to make it have the biggest impact of any COP in history.”

Attendance at the annual summit has risen steadily in recent years, particularly as the presence of corporations and NGOs has grown.

Chris Stark, the chief executive of the Climate Change Committee, recently told The Telegraph the conference was “too big” and had become more like a trade fair.

Among this year’s attendees, Rishi Sunak, the King, Lord Cameron and US envoy John Kerry will all travel by private jet.

A spokesman for Cop28 said: “Everyone is welcome at COP28 because everyone is needed to deliver climate action.”

A sustainability report produced after last year’s COP in Egypt, during which the UAE had a record number of delegates, recommended reducing the number of accreditations.

The UN has also acknowledged the tricky optics of increasing travel to the event. In a guide for host countries titled “How to COP”, it says scrutiny has been focused on “the apparent irony of the GHG (greenhouse gas) emissions generated by thousands of participants flying in from all around the globe to discuss how to reduce GHG emissions.”

It adds: “The conferences generate considerable GHG emissions. Host countries will need to take proactive steps to achieve carbon neutrality.”

The UAE has promised to offset emissions from the event, but will not provide details of exactly how this will be done until after the conclusion of the summit.

Worth reading in full.

Stop Press: King Charles gave the opening address at COP28. So much for staying out of politics. You can see details of his speech here.

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NeilParkin
NeilParkin
2 years ago

“Pride rainbow gets ‘inclusive’ makeover – but still not everyone is happy” – 

Does anyone know which colour they’ve used for Heterosexual? Hard to claim ‘inclusivity’ when 90% of the population aren’t represented, isnt it..?

Ahhh, I’m just joking. Once you get beyond LGB, the activity represented should be a source of shame, not pride.

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thefoostybadger
thefoostybadger
2 years ago
Reply to  NeilParkin

In conversation now I always respond to someone mentioning Trans-women as “Oh you mean a man pretending to be a woman”.

People don’t like it but WTF; let’s call a spade a spade.

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Hugh
Hugh
2 years ago
Reply to  thefoostybadger

Absolutely correct, and worth repeating that there is no right not to be offended.

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Early Doubter
Early Doubter
2 years ago
Reply to  NeilParkin

“…the concept of [Gay] ‘Pride’ as something to be celebrated [is] rather odd. I wasn’t, and am still not, remotely proud, or indeed ashamed, of my sexual orientation. I consider it utterly unremarkable, and ideally, I’d like everybody else to feel that way too….”

Pride has become pompous, grotesque and intolerant.
GARETH ROBERTS8th June 2022
To hell with Pride Month – spiked (spiked-online.com)

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RW
RW
2 years ago
Reply to  NeilParkin

The Israelites at least made a golden calf as object of worship which marks them as people with a very human inclination for culture and art. The rainbow crowd believes their entirely irrelevant selves are a worthy substitute for both and consequently, prefers to dance around themselves. I don’t want to be represented in this carnival of the airheads.

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Lockdown Sceptic
Lockdown Sceptic
2 years ago

Pilots speak out about vaccine-induced injuries and deaths
https://www.newstarget.com/2022-06-21-pilots-speak-out-vaccine-induced-injuries-deaths.html
By Lance D Johnson

Stand for freedom & make friends with our 
Yellow Boards By The Road

Thursday 23rd June 4pm to 5pm  
Yellow Boards  
Junction A321 Yorktown Road/Marshall Rd 
Sandhurst GU47 0RT 

Stand in the Park Sundays 10.30am to 11.30am – make friends & keep sane 

Wokingham 
Howard Palmer Gardens Sturges Rd RG40 2HD   

Bracknell  
South Hill Park, Rear Lawn, RG12 7PA

Henley 
Mills Meadows (bandstand) RG9 1DS

Telegram http://t.me/astandintheparkbracknell

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The Dogman
The Dogman
2 years ago

“What happened to the lab-leak hypothesis?” Of all the mind boggling things that have happened in the last two years, this is perhaps the boggliest. Whether, like most of the people on this site, you think that the response to the pandemic caused more harm than good, or you think that it was a deadly virus that merited the extraordinary measures applied, you should at the very least be curious about the origins and downright furious if it turns out to be man-made. But there is nothing in the media, just crickets. When you think of some of the media frenzies in the past over events that pale into significance compared to Covid, it really is very curious.

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LenaD
LenaD
2 years ago

Does the Mail think that gonorrhoea is a viral disease? Unbelievable!

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Nobody2022
Nobody2022
2 years ago

Pandemic Logic

Economic woes in the UK aren’t due to lockdowns because the whole world is experiencing similar woes.

That’s because countries all over the world locking down over the last 2 years had no effect on the rest of the world.

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The Dogman
The Dogman
2 years ago
Reply to  Nobody2022

The fact that people seem to think that you can print as much money as you want with no consequence is a pretty sad commentary on the intelligence of the British public.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
2 years ago
Reply to  The Dogman

And the bleeding politicians.

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robnicholson
robnicholson
2 years ago
Reply to  The Dogman

I’m not an economist but I can understand that if you print money, inflation follows closely behind.

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Nearhorburian
Nearhorburian
2 years ago

May RPI: 11.7%, up from 11.1% in April.

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Early Doubter
Early Doubter
2 years ago
Reply to  Nearhorburian

May annual rate 11.7%, compared with 11.1% annual rate in April

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ebygum
ebygum
2 years ago

https://nyheder-tv2-dk.translate.goog/samfund/2022-06-22-set-i-bakspejlet-fik-vi-ikke-meget-ud-af-at-vaccinere-boernene-erkender-brostroem?_x_tr_sl=da&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc

hope the link works, had to do it through Google translate!

Denmark….We have become wiser, and we would not do the same today, says Søren Brostrøm. Director General of the Danish Health Authority.
With the knowledge we have today, we did not get much out of having children vaccinated against coronavirus last year.
The director of the National Board of Health, Søren Brostrøm, acknowledged this on Wednesday, when the future Corona strategy has been presented.

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ebygum
ebygum
2 years ago

Where we are……you couldn’t make it up!!?

https://nypost.com/2022/06/21/transgender-ex-neo-nazi-robber-donna-langan-to-receive-fast-tracked-gender-confirmation-surgeries/

Transgender ex-neo-Nazi robber to receive fast-tracked ‘gender confirmation surgeries’
The U.S. Bureau of Prisons (BOP) is hastening a transgender ex-neo-Nazi bank robber’s “gender confirmation surgeries” after the inmate filed a lawsuit against the federal agency claiming it denied previous requests for the surgery.In 1997, Donna Langan, born Peter Kevin Langan, was convicted to life in prison plus 35 years in two separate trials for robbing two banks using firearms and “a destructive device,” assaulting federal officers and further firearms charges, according to Ohio federal court documents.
Langan, 63, was part of a small, neo-Nazi group called the “Aryan Republican Army” (ARA) at the time of his crimes with the goal of funneling money from the banks he robbed to the ARA, according to court documents.

Don’t know whether to laugh or cry!!

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Epi
Epi
2 years ago

“Why is anybody surprised? You can’t lock down an economy and a society, pay millions of people to do nothing, spend and borrow and print tens of billions of pounds, and expect there to be no consequences, no day of reckoning, no bill to pay.”

Excuse me where was this **** when the lockdowns were happening? Taking money from Bill Gates and going along with the narrative -that’s where.

The hypocrisy and cowardice of the Telegraph and it’s staff know no bounds.

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BurlingtonBertie
BurlingtonBertie
2 years ago

Will, ONS data on death by vaccination status. You may want to have a shufty at it & at the graph. Very sad & incredibly depressing that the NHS & officialdom is still peddling this snake oil injection.

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/datasets/deathsbyvaccinationstatusengland

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robnicholson
robnicholson
2 years ago

Please just stop!! It’s bad enough instilling so much fear that people still test. Friends 60th weekend – everyone has to show proof of LFT. Well least I get my weekend back.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/21/wrist-worn-trackers-can-detect-covid-before-symptoms-study-finds

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