Essay by Eric Worrall
The private jets will fly climate delegates to the center of the world’s largest source of industrial CO2, to congratulate China on their emissions reduction progress?
China eyes bid to host 2028 U.N. climate talks
AFP-JIJI
Aug 22, 2026WASHINGTON – China is mulling a bid to host U.N. climate talks in 2028, two sources familiar with the matter said Friday, as it seeks to burnish its reputation as a leader in the fight against global warming.
Beijing has not yet made a final decision regarding the proposal for the COP33 summit, both sources said, nor is there a clear timeline for doing so. The host does not have to be decided this year.
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The 2028 summit falls to the Asia-Pacific.
In April, India withdrew its offer to host COP33 without specifying a reason. South Korea has previously expressed interest.
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China has in recent years positioned itself as a counterweight to the United States.
…Hosting U.N. climate talks could thus be an opportunity for China to boost its credentials as a climate leader.
…But hosting the gathering could also cast an unwelcome spotlight on China, which, with its population of 1.4 billion and massive manufacturing industry, is the world’s biggest greenhouse emitter, followed by the United States, India and the European Union.
…The summit would likely fall days after the U.S. presidential election to replace Trump.
Read more: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2026/08/22/climate-change/china-host-2028-un-climate-talks/
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The obvious decision point for China on whether to host COP33 is whether the Democrats do well in the midterms. In my opinion China would love for an over apologising Democrat US delegation to come crawling to a Chinese hosted COP, like a supplicant nation begging the emperor for forgiveness for past offences while attending the court of the Middle Kingdom.
But China might also pull back from hosting if COP31 turns into the utter disarray we all expect it to be.
Given India has already indicated they are not interested in COP33, and China is not sure if they want it, there is a real question of which Asia Pacific Nation would host COP33 if China turns it down.
The current Australian administration would love to host the conference, but for most of Europe and the USA, Australia is a 23 hour flight away, and nobody wants to travel that far.
For some the distance would be really hard. I mean think about poor Greta Thunberg. If Australia hosts COP33. It would take her the best part of a year to sail to Australia from Sweden or her second home in Israel. She would have to pass through pirate infested straits, crocodile infested tropical islands, risk exposure to Malaria, Dengue, and weeks of exposure to blazing tropical UV while crossing the equator, which rarely works out well for people with Nordic ancestors. She would have to choose between risking kidnap by Somali or Houthi pirates after sailing through the Suez Canal, or chancing the ferocious storms around the Cape of Good Hope or even worse, the Drake Passage. She might never arrive.
Of corse there is a small but delicious possibility there will be no COP33 conference to host. With India edging towards the exit door, we need just one or two major emitters to follow the USA into boycotting the event. If all the big players boycott future COPs, there just wouldn’t be any point.
Australia’s Climate Minister Chris Bowen is our secret agent of destruction to achieve the end of COP, our Aussie COP wrecking ball. As “President of Negotiations” for COP31 in Turkey, his contribution to date has been wasting lots of taxpayer money in a flurry of non-activity, and a bungled Fiji climate conference, which failed to attract significant attendance after his office managed to offend everyone important who might have shown their faces. Time for you to get busy Mr Bowen, there is a lot more work for you to do before the big event in Turkey.
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