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Why are people still flying to climate conferences by private jet?

Envirotec Magazine

This is an extraordinary statistic, especially as fewer world leaders attended that COP, as many were busy at a G20 summit in Bali. We also compared the carbon footprints for the past three COPs to help see where the conferences could be located in order to dissuade attendees from using private jets, unless absolutely essential for security.

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? Good COP, Bad COP

Climate Tech VC

  Maybe it was the offer of warm sun in December, but this year’s COP drew 100K attendees, almost double the size of COP15 in Paris. Climate tech played its biggest role ever at COP this year. The oil & gas COP. This was the COP of the climate and O&G juxtaposition. The greenwashing was unavoidable.

COP 70
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Loss and Damage fund pledges are standout of day one of COP28

Envirotec Magazine

It is dwarfed by the total US$7 trillion in subsidies that states, including some of these donors, provide annually to support the fossil fuel industry. ”

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UK Accused of Running ‘Most Exclusionary COP Ever’ as Activists Face Covid Barriers

DeSmogBlog

The UK has been accused of shutting out activists who hail from countries “battered” by extreme weather events from the upcoming UN climate summit, with campaigners warning it could be “the most exclusionary COP ever”. She said: “Inequality is a root cause of the climate crisis and it also permeates important decision making spaces like COP.

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Mapped: Big Ag’s Routes to Influence at COP28

DeSmogBlog

Oil and gas has dominated discussions at past COPs, which have focused on the need to cut greenhouse gas emissions from the energy and transport sectors to tackle dangerous levels of global warming. Big companies which have previously accessed COP in this way include JBS, which came in with the Brazilian delegation for COP27 in Egypt.

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Improving Climate Resilience with Satellite Data: A Conversation with US Government Leaders

Planet Pulse

From a diplomacy perspective, the Department of State has been leveraging satellite data as a way to guide understanding soil content and rainfall in Africa prior to the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference ( COP 27 ) in Egypt later this year. Planet’s Perspective. We are in the midst of a climate crisis.

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COP Spotlight: F1 star turned clean tech champion Nico Rosberg

Business Green

Because 15 years' ago, a COP would not have been like that. Unfortunately it would have to be where the greatest suffering is happening, such as in Sub-Saharan Africa, where most people don't actually even have electricity, at least not on a regular basis. All the world's leading decision-makers are here.

COP 63