It may not be ideal but nor is it guaranteed to fail
Want to have an argument about climate change? Not about the tired old question of whether it exists, which it does, or if humans are causing it, which they are. Instead, how about an issue that has begun to divide people who otherwise fiercely agree on the need to tackle global warming: should the annual UN-sponsored climate COP conferences be hosted by a petrostate? This question rarely arose before the United Arab Emirates, a top 10 oil producer, won its bid to host the 2023 COP in Dubai.
In the early 2000s, Depledge adds, the UN climate secretariat tried to impose an entirely justifiable rule preventing any country well behind on its contributions to the secretariat’s budget from chairing UN climate bodies or receiving funding to attend COPs. The move was quickly abandoned after protests from countries it could have affected. Other climate experts say concern about COP hosts is selective.
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