Each year, signatory parties (countries) of
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) meet to discuss
the climate change related issues. This year, the 18th session of Conferenceof Parties (COP) meeting is held at Doha, Qatar from 26 November to 7 December 2012.
These meetings are extremely useful to discuss the agenda and to pave a forward
path to combat climate change. Furthermore, they are very useful platform to
share and showcase the knowledge and ideas among the world’s leaders, policy
makers, community of practitioners, activists and students and researchers.
Very recently, people started to talk about the
carbon footprint of delegates who travel long to participate in such meetings. Such
meetings are not being able to fulfill the demand of climate change communities;
they are also criticized for the high carbon footprint. I found this video on
YouTube uploaded by Global 3000 - The Globalization Program calculating the carbon footprint of participants COP 18 meeting, Doha, Qatar.
