Since the first Cop in Berlin in 1995, there have been 27 climate conferences and despite discussion and debate, promises and pledges, warnings and entreaties, emissions have just kept on going up.
While early Cops welcomed a few thousand attendees, the latest had 35,000 delegates, and it is difficult now to view the events as anything other than travelling circuses that are increasingly ineffectual.
At Cop26 in Glasgow in 2021 the fossil-fuel lobbyist invasion had more than 500 delegates representing oil, gas and coal interests.
At Cop27 hosted by Egypt, the fossil-fuel sector consolidated its position by increasing its contingent to a whopping 636 delegates.
Cop28 will be held in the United Arab Emirates, an authoritarian petro-state, with the head of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc), Sultan Al Jaber, as the summit president.
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