The Environment Department has pledged to reduce costs associated with future climate change conferences after questions were raised about $1.77 million being spent on hotel rooms for delegates to a United Nations climate change conference in Egypt last year. “Our goal is always to keep the costs at a minimum if possible for such an event,” Chris Forbes,…

The federal government spent at least $1.77 million to send a delegation to attend a United Nations Climate Change Conference in Egypt last November, according to information tabled in the House of Commons. The 27th Conference of the Parties (COP27) was held in the resort town of Sharm El-Sheikh from Nov. 6 to to 20….

Commentary Last month’s United Nations climate conference in Egypt was a dreary affair. Dubbed “COP27”—the 27th of these increasingly tiresome extravaganzas—the 2022 gathering was the same old same old with a few new wrinkles. There was the customary ideological fanaticism—the insistence that we radically retool our societies on the basis of computer models that don’t…

Commentary I’ve made the case in previous columns that the climate change movement is mostly a climate change hustle. Let’s be real. None of this is about changing the temperature of the Earth. Even the most naïve environmental activist can’t really believe that building windmills and driving Teslas is going to cool the planet. This…

Commentary Before leaving for a week of virtue-signaling at the COP27 climate conference with other world elites, President Joe Biden would have done well to reread Hans Christian Anderson’s story “The Emperor’s New Clothes.” “In the great city where he [the Emperor] lived, life was always gay,” Anderson wrote. “Every day many strangers came to…

The United Nations COP27 climate plan calls on nations to spend eight to ten trillion dollars annually to invest in green energy and rapidly reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Governments, central banks, commercial banks, and investors will have to spend $4 to $6 trillion annually to create a global “low-carbon economy,” according to the COP27 Implementation Plan. Furthermore,…

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has said that “more must be done” on climate change, after a last-minute deal was reached at the COP27 climate summit in Egypt. Officials and negotiators agreed a deal in the early hours of Nov. 20 to create a fund to “compensate” poor nations that claim to be victims of…

Commentary The 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) came and went with less fanfare than these gatherings usually have. The annual gabfest provides the opportunity for activists, politicians, and celebrities to fly private jets across the world to gather in luxury hotels and chide people for their consumption of petrochemical products. Usually, many nations…

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The U.S., Canada, Australia and the UK have been accused of failing to meet their United Nations pledge for climate change funding. According to a report by Carbon Brief, a UK-based think tank, the United States fell short of providing its “fair share” of the funding by $49 billion (US $32 billion),  while other countries like Australia did…