More than twice as many are registered for this year’s climate summit as for last year’s meeting. And the meeting in Egypt last year was then the biggest ever. Compared to the meeting in Warsaw ten years ago, the number accredited this year is more than eleven times as high. Driving golf carts back and forth The summit itself is held at the Expo City exhibition area in Dubai. It is an area that is eight times larger than Frognerparken in Oslo. The area is so large that many of the participants are transported back and forth from meetings in electric golf carts. Sustainability manager Pilar Cruz at the American food giant Cargill is present at the meeting. She tells Bloomberg that she has recorded more than 22,000 steps per day during the meeting; far more than her usual 10,000. Some negotiators told Bloomberg that they think the size means that informal meetings in the corridors can be difficult because of the size of the summit. The participants, such as US climate envoy John Kerry, are transported around the summit in electric golf carts. Photo: AP Oil and meat On Tuesday, it became known that there are over 2,400 lobbyists from the coal, oil and gas industry present in Dubai. And it is not only the fossil fuel industry that sends lobbyists. This year, the food industry has sent a number of people to fight their case. For example, an interest group for Canadian meat producers has sent lobbyists to Dubai. A former president of the meat producers tells Global News that they will explain to the delegates “the benefits of the cattle industry for the environment and for nutritious food for people”. – During the last decade, the climate talks have become a complete lobbyist party. It doesn’t feel like climate talks. It feels like a trade fair, says Pascoe Sabido at the think tank Corporate Europe Observatory to the Washington Post. Visitors pass by the Russian Pavilion in Dubai. Photo: Reuters Brazil, China and Nigeria The largest group of those attending the meeting are nevertheless delegates from the countries. An overview from Carbon Brief shows that there are 24,488 delegates from the countries. There are more than twice as many as in Sharm el-Sheikh last year. Most are from the host country, the United Emirates (UAE). They have 4,409 delegates, but many of them have extra duties as the UAE chairs the meeting. Among other countries, Brazil is the largest with 3,081 participants. This is followed by China and Nigeria, which both have 1,411 people. In comparison, Norway has sent a relatively modest 183 people. At the other end of the scale are countries with less than ten participants. The least is North Korea (29, followed by Eritrea (6) and Liechtenstein and Moldova, both with eight. Travel by air and private aircraft Before the climate summit in Glasgow two years ago, there was much criticism of the CO₂ emissions that accompanied the meeting. It was then calculated that 60 percent of the emissions came from the participants flying to the meeting. Bloomberg has made an estimate of the emissions from this year’s summit. They have looked at what happens if 70,000 participants travel round-trip from New York to Dubai. The UN’s climate calculator shows that each person generates around three tonnes of CO₂. That’s slightly less than half of what each individual Norwegian emits over the course of an entire year. The real number is probably a good deal higher, writes Bloomberg. Many travel to the meeting by private plane, which which produce around 100 times the emissions per person of regular flights. During last year’s summit, at least 100 flights arrived in Sharm el-Sheikh. Two years ago, 118 were recorded for Glasgow. This year’s figures are not clear, but there is no indication that the number of private planes has decreased. Dubai’s Expo City, where the climate summit takes place over an area eight times the size of Frogner Park. Photo: Reuters Will be smaller next year So far it is not clear where next year’s climate summit – COP 29 – will be held So far the hottest candidates are Bulgaria, Serbia, Armenia and Azerbaijan. Who will organize the meeting must be decided by 12 December, writes Reuters. In any case, it is clear that the next summit will be smaller than this year’s. The capitals of the countries in question simply do not have enough infrastructure, such as hotels and the like, to accommodate 100,000 visitors. Perhaps the closest is Azerbaijan, which organized Eurovision in Baku in 2012. The world does not yet know the outcome of this year’s summit. Only next week will it become clear what was the result of gathering 100,000 people to talk about the climate crisis. A spokesperson for the organizers of COP28 responds that they will show their sustainability ambition by delivering a carbon-conscious and sustainable event. They say that they work both to avoid and reduce emissions, and will compensate for remaining emissions by using carbon credits. Details relating to the carbon budget will be available in a separate report. Temperature in the world since 1880 compared to the average in the period 1991-2020 +0.5°C compared to normal? Click for explanation normal temperature 18801900192019401960198020002020Go to news’s Climate Status Why are most years blue and colder than normal? This is because all years are now compared with a new normal, i.e. the average weather in the 30-year period 1991-2020. These 30 years have been unusually warm. Most other years are therefore colder than normal. Until recently, researchers used a normal period that ran from 1961-1990. In these years it was relatively cold. It’s been quite a while since the 1960s and the new normal allows us to compare the weather with the climate (normal) that people actually experience today. The normal period is determined by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), and is used in all countries . In this way, we can compare the weather in Norway with other countries and we can measure changes all over the globe. How can you calculate one temperature for the whole world? This number is the result of a complicated calculation. Measurements are made with thermometers both on land and on the sea surface (at sea the thermometers are attached to buoys). In some places the thermometers are close together, in other places they are far apart. Using a statistical method, the researchers are able to give the measurements different weights, so that all areas are equally important: The data used in this graph comes from the American NOAA. They have divided the globe into squares of 5° x 5° and calculate one temperature for each square. Then they can again work their way up to a global figure, for each month or for each year. They can also make figures for the temperature only over the ocean or only over land, or for the northern and southern hemispheres. The lines at the poles are smaller than along the equator due to the curvature of the globe. The researchers also take this into account in their calculations. Others, such as NASA or the Hadley Centre, calculate in slightly different ways than NOAA. Therefore, there are often small differences between the various data sets. In any case, the trend they show is the same: since 1880, the world has become warmer.
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