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COP24 - who is really working for the climate?

Who are the real climate believers? The latest Conference of the Parties (COP24) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has convened in Poland (December 2018). This was a truly massive international event. One hundred and ninety-eight parties (equivalent to countries or similar entities) were represented by 7749 delegates. The total number of registered participants is over 22,000. I fully recognise that the COP meetings are not specifically technical. That said, they are discussing the implications of something that is measurable – climate change. One would expect, or at least hope, that those countries most concerned about the impact of climate change would also be the most assiduous in determining the degree and extent of climate change by rigorously monitoring the climate. As an index of a country’ political concern about climate change, I have used the number of registered participants at COP24. Similarly, as an index of a country’ pa