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Location location location: a carbon footprint calculator for transparent travel to the UN Climate Conference 2022
Addressing the large carbon footprint of conferences such as the United Nations Climate Change Convention Conference of the Parties (COP) will be important for maintaining public confidence in climate policy. Transparency is also a vital aspect of creating equitable outcomes in climate policies, as...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10686209/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/38033507 http://dx.doi.org/10.14324/111.444/ucloe.000066 |
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author | Barnsley, Jonathan Williams, Jhénelle A. Chin-Yee, Simon Costello, Anthony Maslin, Mark McGlade, Jacqueline Taylor, Richard Winning, Matthew Parikh, Priti |
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description | Addressing the large carbon footprint of conferences such as the United Nations Climate Change Convention Conference of the Parties (COP) will be important for maintaining public confidence in climate policy. Transparency is also a vital aspect of creating equitable outcomes in climate policies, as those most likely to be affected or who can create change on the ground are often unable to attend in person because of the high financial costs as well as having a large carbon footprint. The selection of host locations for the regular meetings of the UN Climate Change Convention is based on a rotation amongst the five UN regions, which for 2022 was Africa. Here, we present a carbon footprint calculator for travel to COP 27 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, weighing the benefits of certain routes and modes of transport. The calculator demonstrates the well-known carbon efficiency of coach and rail over flights but shows that these benefits were partly diminished in the case of COP 27 due to insufficient transport links from Europe to the conference location. However, we also highlight some of the benefits of hosting a COP in the Global South, particularly in the context of climate justice. Users of the calculator are invited to consider all their options for travel and acknowledge the issue of climate justice through careful selection of carbon offsets. |
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spelling | pubmed-106862092023-11-30 Location location location: a carbon footprint calculator for transparent travel to the UN Climate Conference 2022 Barnsley, Jonathan Williams, Jhénelle A. Chin-Yee, Simon Costello, Anthony Maslin, Mark McGlade, Jacqueline Taylor, Richard Winning, Matthew Parikh, Priti UCL Open Environ Research Article Addressing the large carbon footprint of conferences such as the United Nations Climate Change Convention Conference of the Parties (COP) will be important for maintaining public confidence in climate policy. Transparency is also a vital aspect of creating equitable outcomes in climate policies, as those most likely to be affected or who can create change on the ground are often unable to attend in person because of the high financial costs as well as having a large carbon footprint. The selection of host locations for the regular meetings of the UN Climate Change Convention is based on a rotation amongst the five UN regions, which for 2022 was Africa. Here, we present a carbon footprint calculator for travel to COP 27 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, weighing the benefits of certain routes and modes of transport. The calculator demonstrates the well-known carbon efficiency of coach and rail over flights but shows that these benefits were partly diminished in the case of COP 27 due to insufficient transport links from Europe to the conference location. However, we also highlight some of the benefits of hosting a COP in the Global South, particularly in the context of climate justice. Users of the calculator are invited to consider all their options for travel and acknowledge the issue of climate justice through careful selection of carbon offsets. UCL Press 2023-11-29 /pmc/articles/PMC10686209/ /pubmed/38033507 http://dx.doi.org/10.14324/111.444/ucloe.000066 Text en © 2023 The Authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC BY) 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Barnsley, Jonathan Williams, Jhénelle A. Chin-Yee, Simon Costello, Anthony Maslin, Mark McGlade, Jacqueline Taylor, Richard Winning, Matthew Parikh, Priti Location location location: a carbon footprint calculator for transparent travel to the UN Climate Conference 2022 |
title | Location location location: a carbon footprint calculator for transparent travel to the UN Climate Conference 2022 |
title_full | Location location location: a carbon footprint calculator for transparent travel to the UN Climate Conference 2022 |
title_fullStr | Location location location: a carbon footprint calculator for transparent travel to the UN Climate Conference 2022 |
title_full_unstemmed | Location location location: a carbon footprint calculator for transparent travel to the UN Climate Conference 2022 |
title_short | Location location location: a carbon footprint calculator for transparent travel to the UN Climate Conference 2022 |
title_sort | location location location: a carbon footprint calculator for transparent travel to the un climate conference 2022 |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10686209/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/38033507 http://dx.doi.org/10.14324/111.444/ucloe.000066 |
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