Climate jamboree
Greta Thunberg, the climate change activist, has described the annual gatherings to discuss global warming as so much “blah, blah, blah” – all talk and no action. It is hard to disagree. In Dubai, 70,000 delegates are descending on the oil rich Gulf state for a two-week symposium that seems more performative than practical. Any real work leading to intergovernmental agreements is carried out by small groups of decision-makers, so what the rest are doing is hard to fathom. This is the 28th “confe