| Comment | The fact is that the way the UNFCCC works is that the vast majority of work is conducted the way you suggest - remotely via teleconferencing. The COP is the occasional get-together where, after all the intervening years of preparatory work, those same governmental representatives hammer out the final details and finally (hopefully) sign up to what they've been preparing legally for years.
The fact is, that the final stages of any COP are highly complex wheeling and dealing between nation states carrying out bespoke and improvised negotiations right down to the final wire. These 10 days are literally 24/7 random unscheduled meetings to get the final deal over the line.
A COP just cannot be done remotely, but it is based on years of remote preparation. |
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