Posted on 11/13/2021 9:41:52 AM PST by rktman
The carbon footprint of COP26, the ongoing United Nations climate summit, is expected to double that of the previous conference held in 2019, according to a report.
The two-week COP26 conference, which is entering its final days in Scotland, is projected to lead to about 102,500 metric tons of carbon dioxide in emissions, according to a preliminary assessment commissioned by the UN from British professional services firm ARUP. That’s the equivalent of more than 225.9 million pounds of carbon emissions.
By comparison, COP25, the 2019 UN climate conference, emitted 51,101 metric tons of carbon dioxide, The New York Times reported. But environmental activists said immediate carbon emissions were necessary to solving climate change decades in the future.
“The question shouldn’t be how do we reduce emissions at these type of events, but how do we speed up the phasing out all fossil fuels, end fossil finance and leverage the climate finance needed to support a global just transition, so that we don’t have to have these type of conferences in the first place,” Cansin Leylim, associate director of global projects at anti-fossil fuel group 350.org, told the NYT.
Stephen Allen, an energy expert at the University of Bath in the U.K., similarly said carbon emissions from climate conferences weren’t important, according to the NYT. Negotiations on long-term climate commitments and carbon emissions reductions are more important than short-term setbacks, he added.
“I suppose in a way, we’re investing carbon emissions in trying to secure a good international agreement that then leads to really big carbon savings,” Allen told the NYT.
Leaders, including President Joe Biden and several senior administration officials, traveled from around the world to speak and engage in negotiations at COP26. Thousands of diplomats were housed in gas-guzzling cruise ships during the summit.
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Hmmmm. Any numbers on how much the ‘greta-ettes’ emitted for their trip to protest and yak about blah blah blah?
Climate change nonsense is about extortion, not “fixing” something that they know they have no control over.
It’s a lie that is accepted world-wide now
I’ll bet she isn’t traveling by air nature boats, and by foot any longer.
Choo choo train again IIRC. Probably not a swim over to catch the train either.
The VAXX and climate change are two branches of the same tree of those who wish to control every one else.
Everything the climate jockeys do or say is DEAD WRONG!!!!
PHOOEY to them ALL!!!!
Oh, yeah. "We're stinking up the place so you won't get to" is what that amounts to. Elitists won't ever change.
Twice as much hot air as last year at the climate hoax conference 🤪
Most highways are made from asphalt (oil). Trucks pay more taxes to drive those roads due to their weight wearing them out faster than cars.
Electric cars weigh more the ICE cars. Therefore electrics should pay a road tax like trucks do to make up for the extra wear on the roadways. It also costs more and takes longer to put out electric car fires than ICE car fires. Another tax needed.
Cherry on top: You can’t build an EV without using oil. Without oil used, EVs would be too heavy and have extremely limited range. Batteries are much heavier than engines.
That’s OK it’s only about MONEY anyway ,LOL
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