The carbon footprints of those attending will be pretty irrelevant if they can agree on and execute a realistic plan for saving us from ourselves. But fossil fuel lobbyists and other are already working furiously behind the scenes to derail any meaningful progress. I expect the outcome to be an impressive-sounding statement that won't stand up to scrutiny. I hope it will be better than that.
Don't worry Ian..
I'm going along to help 'save the planet' by advocating for sustainable land use, and agroecological food production practices, which can capture rather than release carbon ..
Expecting China to absorb all the embodied CO2 assigned to them from manufacturing the rest of the world's stuff, and then complaining about their current record, isn't going to solve the problem... we all have to work together to find better/ cleaner ways of working.
Products and services are part of the global infrastructure... they need global solutions. I keep harping on about a global PV energy supplies and storage network, but that is the biggest opportunity we have to cut emissions to COP 26 levels.... but it needs cooperation and R+D investment now, not tomorrow, 2022 or 2030.
It's achieving the working together, cooperation and collaboration mindset, rather than endlessly competitive stance, which is our biggest hurdle imo.
We've
sort of shown we have potential to do that with the covid response.
But we still need to get a whole heap better at it..
I'm attending with a positive mindset, in part because being there with anything else would be utterly pointless.
But also because I know there are so many already available methodologies, which although they won't stop CC , they could at least slow it down, and build climate resilience..
