A good friend pointed out that anything called Conference of the Parties (COP) is doomed. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Rio 1992 — also known as the Earth Summit for those of us old enough to remember — resulted in the third COP and Kyoto Protocol in 1997. As a commentary in The Guardian notes: “But since then the annual meetings have swung between the fractious and the soporific, interspersed with moments of high drama, and the occasional triumph (Paris Agreement 2015), or disasters like Copenhagen 2009.”
Q: What was the carbon footprint for the jamboree that just concluded in Glasgow and was it worth it?
A: Well, #NetZero is not the return we will get if one were to read the tea leaves in the making
