The Madrid
Climate Disaster
By Peter Koenig
December 24, 2019 "Information
Clearing House" -
Does anyone know what COP25 stands for? Probably
very few. Its unimportant. As unimportant as the whole
roadshow itself. Just for the hell of it, for those who
read this article, COP means Conference of the Parties
(COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on
Climate Change (UNFCCC). The 25 stands for the 25th year
that such annual conferences have taken place – every
year in another country – what a tourist bonanza for the
hundreds, if not thousands of attendees and participants
who travel – by air – many of them business class, to
these most questionable, even useless conferences.
The first of the COP
summits took place in Berlin, Germany, in March 1995.
The COP’s Presidency rotates among the 5 UN recognized
regions and so do the conferences – to make
“eco-tourism” most of the time for the same UN and
government bureaucrats and jokers more attractive. I
can’t help thinking of the enormous cost of these
conferences – travel, food, lodging and everything in
between – for two weeks – in the case of COP25 Madrid
(2-16 December 2019), two days more than planned,
because after the scheduled two weeks no agreements were
reached, so it was decided to add two days. Add to this
all the preparatory meetings and related travels – tens
of millions of dollars, possibly more, are spent for
nothing, absolutely zilch, nada. That’s the officially
recognized outcome at the end of the extended COP25 in
Madrid – nothing.
There are UN staff,
directors mostly, at the UN in Geneva and in New York,
who earn huge salaries in the hundreds of thousands a
year, for doing what? Some of them are directing their
staff to preparing the extravagant but mostly useless
COPs – and of course, they are also attending them. When
I see monetary figures like this, and we are now talking
of only one kind of UN conferences, it occurs to me that
this is money stolen from the poor. It is taken from the
very people whom the UN is committed by its Charter to
help. – How many simple drinking water supply and
sanitation systems could you build with all this money?
How many millions of people could you serve with the
money wasted for such conferences with safe drinking
water and safe sanitation?
