Climate conference
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Does anyone know why the climate conference is being held in Scotland ? Making it very difficult for those from the Southern hemisphere to travel and join in the discussions .
Why wasn’t it planned so that all countries would have easy access ?
Planes can fly anywhere Deboer and it gives Scotland the chance to have the discussions in their country, rather than in any other country. Can’t see a problem with that to be honest.
It was originally planned for Italy, in 2020, but Covid put paid to that.
Boris (as Foreign Sec) saw an opportunity to include Scotland in UK and offered Scotland as the venue.
Why wasn’t it held in China or India the biggest and worst polluters in the world? probably too much pollution for the politicians
Italy and UK shared the presidency for this period.
John Kerry has suggested Egypt for the next one in 2027, but that has not been confirmed by the COP bureau.
USA produces more pollution than India. More than twice as much.
Per capita, Qatar is the worst polluting country. Out of the G7 countries, who agreed to tackle the problem, Canada is the worst.
The top 10 most polluting countries according to the IPCC:
Qatar — 37.05 per capita
Kuwait — 23.49 per capita
Saudi Arabia — 19.39 per capita
Canada — 16.85 per capita
United States — 15.74 per capita
Germany — 9.7 per capita
China — 7.72 per capita
Spain — 6.09 per capita
France — 5.02 per capita
Thailand — 4.05 per capitaChina and India’s argument is that they are still developing nations, whereas the western nations are fully developed.
They, China and India, and other developing nations argue that the developed nations are in a better position to help out the poorer and developing nations to achieve green credentials.
USA produces more pollution than India. More than twice as much.
I stand corrected
They, China and India, and other developing nations argue that the developed nations are in a better position to help out the poorer and developing nations to achieve green credentials.
Well they would argue that, however being able to throw tons of crap into the atmosphere allows cheaper prices so they sell more and it gets worse, fully developed or not doesnt make it right they should be given a free hand, funny how those 2 countries can be classed as the porrer nations when they own lots of European industry, buy out steel companies car companies, China lends Billions at good interest to the west and yet they are still developing, something wrong somewhere if you ask me, and thanks to China for Covid
Allwaysinit said:
30TH OCTOBER 2021 AT 2:47 PM #562353
and thanks to China for CovidPerhaps Allwaysinit ought to apologise for their bigotry.
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Allwaysinit said:
30TH OCTOBER 2021 AT 2:47 PM #562353Well they would argue that,
What argument would you think USA has? Or Qatar, or Germany, etc, etc?
A different one to China and india
Having spent a lot of time in each of those places the crap they chuck out both to atmosphere and to waterways is disgusting
Allwaysinit
30TH OCTOBER 2021 AT 2:47 PM #562353
and thanks to China for CovidAllwaysinit
30TH OCTOBER 2021 AT 3:12 PM #562356
A different one to China and indiaHaving spent a lot of time in each of those places the crap they chuck out both to atmosphere and to waterways is disgusting
Your bigotry is in full view.
Glasgow has an international airport,capable of catering for all the polluting planes that they will all be arriving on(for the climate conference),so i don,t see how it is a difficult for anyone to get to.
Quite right Topcat. I don’t think Glasgow is a city that doesn’t have an international airport, at least it wasn’t when I last used it! England and its airports is not the be-all and end-all to British travel destinations!!!
This is what I meant :
Campaigners say activists and observers have been prevented from coming by:
an underlying “hostile attitude” from the UK Home Office towards those travelling from countries in the global south, particularly Africa, which has led to many visas being refused;
a failure to honour a pledge to offer Covid vaccines to all delegates, leaving many to search for vaccines in countries with little or no access;
constantly changing Covid restrictions for those entering the UK, with travel banned from countries on the UK’s red list, which, until this month, included many of the countries worst hit by the climate crisis. This has left many to seek costly and complicated routes to Glasgow via third countries;
an accommodation crisis in the city that has made finding a safe place to stay difficult and expensive. Campaigners have set up a “homestay network” to try to link people up with spare rooms, but say they have thousands on their waiting list.Nothing to do with Glasgow airport .
I think all those on this site that have travelled to the UK lately have experienced problems ?
The biggest polluters are not even attending. The rest of the hypocrites are flying in on private jets with a massive enterrage of cars and helicopters. You couldn’t make this up. Bloody politicians, when are we going to be represented by people who actually live on the same planet as the rest of us?
It’s not about what they say it’s about.
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.”
H. L Mecken
I like Neil Oliver, he does talk a good game but is maybe a bit short on global solutions ?
Maybe Harry and Meghan should be enlisted to help with global warming.
A conference held without the largest polluters?say what you like…decide what you like …they will do as they want.
John P said
30TH OCTOBER 2021 AT 10:58 PM #562377
The biggest polluters are not even attending.USA are attending.
Harry and Meghan should be totally ignored. Little whiners……no class.
At the risk of appearing to display bigotry…China are not attending.
Yes John…agree …I was being sarcastic .
The leaders of both China and Russia have declined to attend, I suspect politics (as ever) has taken over the issues that need to be addressed.
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