The Johannesburg Summit on sustainable growth? Not very sustainable.
- 300-400 tons of trash have been generated, only 20% of which is being recycled.
- An estimated 5 million pieces of paper are being printed out or used.
- The 45,000 delegates are each going through an average of 53 gallons of water a day.
- Recycling bins are overflowing with nonrecyclable trash.
- The travel to distant South Africa is generating about 300k tons of CO2.
The Johannesburg Climate Legacy project hopes to offset this by raising nearly $3 million from participating countries, corporations and individuals, and using it to implement 16 projects to reduce carbon emissions.
Only $300,000 has been raised, and only seven of the 192 countries at the summit have pledged donations.
Perhaps they’ve been too busy eating and drinking.
(via InstaPundit)
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Isn’t this standard UN style? And what else can you expect when probably 2/3 of the countries attending are kleptocracies?
And three guesses as to who they want to klept from next.
I wonder if they’ll try to pin this on the evils of the U.S. subverting the representatives with capitalist pig ideas?!
Hey, we probably saved the world a bundle by not having our head of state attend.