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Lars Schernikau’s newsletter presents easy to understand, essential information about energy, energy related meetings and policy formulation around the world. The focus is on understanding intermittent and conventional sources of energy, evaluating positive and negative externalities Below is a snippet from last week’s newsletter COP28 in Dubai is here

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COP28 in Dubai starts next week… another show of tens of thousands of politicians, media, activists, consultants, executives, and lobbyist come to – many would argue – one of the largest money and time wasting gatherings on the globe. Imagine what good we could do with all this brainpower and money. ● At the end of November, the

world will descend upon the United Arab Emirates for the 28th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP28), a meeting expected to be attended by “over 140 heads of state, senior government leaders, over 70,000 participants and more than 5,000 media professionals.” ● Ostensibly, COP meetings

“primarily revolve around negotiations and debates. The aim is to review progress towards the overall goal of the UNFCCC: to limit climate

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change.”

The COP is the supreme decisionmaking body of the “Convention” (that is what the UN calls the UNFCCC or “United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change”). The UNFCCC secretariat (UN Climate Change) is the United Nations entity tasked with supporting the global response to the "threat of climate change".

All States that are Parties to the Convention are represented at the COP, at which they review the implementation of the convention and any other legal instruments that the COP adopts and take decisions necessary to promote the effective implementation of the Convention, including institutional and administrative arrangements.

A key task for the COP is to review the national communications and emission inventories submitted by Parties. Based on this information, the COP assesses the effects of the measures taken by Parties and the progress made in achieving the ultimate objective of the Convention.

The COP meets every year unless the Parties decide otherwise. The first COP meeting was held in Berlin, Germany in March, 1995.

Around 450 staff are employed at UN Climate Change.

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“Secretariat staff come from over 100 countries and represent a blend of diverse cultures, genders and professional backgrounds”.

30-40k activists, politicians, executives, consultants, civil servants, media, educators and more travelled to COP27 in Egypt… all sponsored by someone… various attempts have been made to calculate the energy and money spent on a COP event, such as for this year's upcoming COP in Dubai.

The proposed core program budget 2024/2025 is estimated at 88 million euros. Despite this increase from the previous year, the proposed core program budget would still entail a high dependence on unpredictable supplementary funding of 155 million euros.

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