TeleSur reports that the French President visited the beautiful island of Martinique on Saturday, to chair the Caribbean climate summit.
According to TeleSur;
The Caribbean Climate 2015 summit will be held on the French Overseas Territory of Martinique.
The Summit will deal with preparations and mobilization for UN Climate Change talks, to be held in Paris, France, in December 2015.
Saturday’s event will highlight the unique challenges faced by small island states in the Caribbean, as they seek to address issues of climate change adaptation and mitigation.
Of course, if you missed Saturday’s Caribbean summit, there are plenty of other opportunities to contribute to taxpayer funded efforts to combat climate change.
There might still be time to book a place at the 84th meeting of the CDM (Clean Development Mechanism) board in Bonn, Germany, 25 – 28th May. The CDM supervises the Kyoto Protocol’s clean development mechanism. The Kyoto treaty is now defunct, sort of, but that doesn’t seemed to have stopped the board from scheduling regular meetings.
The 2nd – 4th of June sees the meeting of the CDM accreditation panel. Even though the Kyoto CDM is kindof defunct, they still have funding to promote and accredit schemes which comply with the CDM.
Can’t make it to the CDM events? Don’t worry, there is always the Bonn Climate Change Conference in June (1st – 11th). Since the Bonn conference is in the same city, I guess you can probably commute between the CDM accreditation panel and the climate conference, if you are so minded.
And there are plenty of more events in the CDM schedule – for example, the 67th meeting of the CDM Meth panel on 15 – 19th June, the 48th Meeting of the CDM Small-Scale Working Group 22nd to 25th June, the 85th Meeting of the CDM Executive Board Meeting in July, etc, etc. Not bad for an organisation whose fiscal authority kindof expired a few years ago.
If you are quick, you might also make it to the 29th June event in New York.
Then there is the Common Future summit in Paris in July 7th – 10th, though you need to be quick, early bird registration closes in a few weeks.
This is followed by the World Engineers Summit on Climate Change in Singapore, 21st – 24th July.
July sees another opportunity to visit South America – Hands-on training workshop for the Latin American and Caribbean region on vulnerability and adaptation assessment, from 27th July to 31st July.
Naturally the events I have listed are just a few of the highlights in the couple of months. For a more comprehensive list of the events and conferences our climate heroes will attend, in the lead up to the Paris COP21 event, check out the UNFCC calendar. The calendar only lists the major events – there are undoubtably hundreds, perhaps thousands of smaller events and green travel opportunities, for climate functionaries who haven’t quite made it to the big league.
Where do we sign up for the carbon credits for all the conferences we planned to go to but didn’t?
BC prices carbon at $30/ton. That is something like $300 of carbon credits for every 1000 kilometers of air travel not taken. $12,000 worth of carbon credits for a flight not taken around round the world.
Given the number of Climate Conferences I’d planned to go to, but didn’t to help save the planet, I likely wracked up close to $100,000 in carbon credits over the past year alone. Maybe a lot more,
I see a huge growth industry where people of all ages and persuasions can sign up for trips and then not take them. Round the world airline ticket are currently selling for well under $2000, so that still leaves more than $10,000 in carbon profit for round the world trips bought but not taken. Even more if the air-tickets are refundable.
And why limit yourself to not taking just a single round the world trip? Each of us could probably squeeze a dozen of so of these trips not taken into our busy schedules. With careful planning we could entirely eliminate our boring day-to-day jobs and embark on an exciting, full time career of not going anywhere. Just think of how much you could help the planet by doing nothing.
Hey, I know – they could hold the summit underwater communicating with hand signals, and using waterproof documents and pens to highlight what “could” happen if an agreement isn’t reached. It would be awesome.
Oh, wait.
Or, they could turn off the air conditioning and cry about the warmth… Oh wait.
Could be some significant cold weather in Paris.
Isn’t Paris at a similar latitude as Montreal?
It’ll be December and Al Gore will most likely be there increasing the chance of nasty weather.
The Empire of the Greys.
Bureaucracy will expand to absorb every resource available, then expand its reach to consume ever more.
Always here to help…. some one or some thing.. yet always helping only its endless growth.
The UN is bureaucracy.
Useless at performing its stated aim.
With and endless hunger for power and wealth.
Actions speak, name one crisis the UN has not prolonged, encouraged and then demanded more money on behalf of.
..dont worry I am thinking……………. It must be Alzheimer, I cannot remember any. I do remember that they have talked a lot about various wars and crisis, genocides and pillages, they have definitely admonished a lot of dictators and mass killers, I do know for a fact that there are countless resolution of condemnation for certain individuals and countries with very stern words used, not as stern as some countries wanted just in case a bigger country got it’s nose out of joint and ended up bombing the hell out of the UN. I do know that they are an organization that is very costly to run, a lot of many has to be paid by all the countries in the world to be part of this prestigious and useful organization. ..and pigs will fly!!
I understand an unnamed UN official was organizing a summit to determine the carbon footprints of the events and conferences held in the lead up to the Paris COP21 event. Apparently this official felt that all these vacations…er, summits, were hypocritical and unnecessarily contributing CO2 to the atmosphere and should be cancelled. However, this UN official’s summit itself has been cancelled due to his tragic, and untimely death. Apparently he died in an unexplained single vehicle accident. His cochair, who vowed to continue the summit also died shortly afterwards. Apparently he killed himself. No suicide note was left, and his family was shocked since he was in generally good spirits. Additionally, the firstborn sons of the official and cochair have been missing ever since their deaths. And, allegations have surfaced that the UN official and cochair’s secretary has been involved in an extramarital affair and has resigned as a result. In memory, and to show deepest respect to the foregoing officials the UN has permanently cancelled any further summits concerning carbon footprints of UN activities.
I guess I better put a sarc tag here.
/sarc
Spring Break for the 97%ers
It’s Green’s World, Green’s World, party time, excellent!
Tax payer funded group hugs.
The problem is that the louder skepticism becomes and the more climate is out of line with models the more these followers need their hugs, the group reinforcing each other’s belief that they are right and the rest is wrong.
I kind of imagine them standing around in a big circle, hands around each others shoulders with a CO2 emitting candle, or 50, in the middle of the circle (gives more atmosphere and warmth then a little solar powered LED).
Chanting away, singing their hymns. Now and then the lead singer calls for a different chant and the whole lot goes from CCS to polar bears, only to break for feeding frenzies, back to solar (sitting on the beach) and wind ( as a result from the feeding).
In the end there will be a carefully contrived statement that basically means: This was soooo much fun, we need another taxpayer funded group hug in 4 weeks.
Despite everything they say about skeptics, they don’t want it to stop as it would mean the end of their junkets.
Talk about “useless eaters”!
…and all of this travel has been achieved without releasing any more CO2, all method of transport used are powered by solar and wind energy! A new “secret ” green machine: you start up on solar, as the vehicle gains speed you switch to the windmill on the roof and you have plenty of power. Obviously there are no batteries in the vehicle, too much CO2 has to be used in the production of them! Morons!!
http://41.media.tumblr.com/33f60bb030edaeee3c6be79570fad7b3/tumblr_nlp7570j6P1rw5dlyo1_1280.jpg
Sounds like a nice vacation for the rent-seekers.
“I see now in Paris, to stop the climate from changing,
The politicians another jamboree are arranging.
Plenty of delegates our governments I’m sure they’ll be sending;
Loads of taxpayer’s money I’m sure they’ll be spending.
The mysteries of climate they’ll pretend to unravel;
(Loads of CO2 emissions as the free-loaders travel)
There’s no chance of success, as the blind lead the blind,
Mother Nature’s secrets the politicians won’t find……
Read more: http://wp.me/p3KQlH-HR
The day these jackals – I prefer to use a different word, really – decide to PROVE they believe in carbon based global warming by holding all these meetings via a form of “go to meeting” or some teleconference of that nature, that will be the first day I believe THEY believe what they are saying. As long as they “jet away” to exotic conference after exotic conference, I know they KNOW they are playing a game designed to create world government.
Martinique is nice, bright, sunny and warm. In Paris it will be bleak, cold, overcast and depressing. Global Warming Anyone>
Generally, I would say that those climate summits are a good opportunity for the scientist to mention their latest thesis and projects on climate change. Still, when it comes to politics, I have a different approach. Every time I see a politician talking about the climate, I become a bit skeptic: what does he want? is he really interested in the climate? Usually, they have a hidden agenda, which is, often, more important than their public one. So, I prefer to take my information from useful sites with debates,, like this one, or from some other sites which try to explain the climate changes and which are the major events that have triggered the climate changes. For example, there are some interesting aspects on http://www.1ocean-1climate.com.
http://www.skyfall.fr/?p=1523
Anthony, FYI the skeptical French blog Skyfall.fr is having a climathon each week to honor the most idiotic statement made by a well known public figure, leading to the COP 21. French President Hollande, IPCC Jean Jouzel have been multiple winners of this weekly context.
I must point that a French mathematician, Benoît Rittaud, implemented a weekly contest seeking the author of the most outrageous climate BS, and guess what ? The winner of this week is… François Hollande ! See http://www.skyfall.fr/?p=1523
That tells us all. climate conferences are about jollies to fabulous places and nothing else. Paris is too cold and crowded for the likes of climate scientists and are far too pleb compared to what they not consider their right.