Do 70,000 people really need to be at a climate confab? World leaders, celebrities and grifters are turning COP into Green Davos.
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Do 70,000 people really need to be at a climate confab? World leaders, celebrities and grifters are turning COP into Green Davos.
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[[Free to read]](https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-11-30/cop28-do-70-000-people-really-need-to-be-at-a-climate-confab) from climate columnist Mark Gongloff:
How many people do you think it takes to hammer out a global climate agreement? 500? 5,000? 50,000?
Apparently, the correct answer is 70,000. That’s about how many people are expected to turn up in Dubai over the next few weeks for COP28, the latest United Nations climate confab.
If one wanted to be nitpicky about it, one could argue that 70,000 people riding airplanes to an oil country on the Arabian Peninsula to talk about climate change feels a bit like staging an AA meeting in a Fort Lauderdale nightclub during Spring Break. You risk losing sight of the purpose.