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...More than 45,000 people registered to attend last year’s COP in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, and about 40,000 attended the year before in Glasgow....
...This compares with the 36,000-plus tally of the core participants at COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, the year before, or an increase of 80 per cent....
...Elsewhere a Ryanair flight from Shannon to Edinburgh ended up in Cologne, while a Tui flight from Sharm El Sheikh to Glasgow landed in Manchester....
...“This COP is even more of a trade show than we saw in Glasgow and Sharm el-Sheikh [in 2021 and 2022],” said Alex Scott, climate diplomacy and geopolitics lead at the climate-focused think-tank E3G....
...Female national negotiators have complained about harassment and bullying at preceding UN climate meetings, in particular at COP27 at Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt....
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...“A lot of people were scarred by Sharm el-Sheikh where the food ran out, the water ran out and a sewage pipe burst. People were getting electrocuted, the venue was terrible, the signage was bad....
...The figures do not compare directly with the 636 lobbyists identified at the previous UN climate summit held last year at Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt, which was based on more limited data at the time....
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...Wahu’s plan is to sell carbon credits within the framework of a bilateral agreement signed between Switzerland and Ghana (and Vanuatu) at last November’s COP27 climate summit in Sharm el-Sheikh....
...International talks over the size and format of the proposed loss and damage fund have been fraught since the concept was first agreed at the UN COP27 climate summit in Sharm-el-Sheikh last year....
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...As I reported from Sharm el-Sheikh last year, the final days of COP27 brought a late effort by dozens of countries to include in the final declaration a reference to the “phase-down” of all fossil fuels....
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