2023-10-12 17:09:45
The Flemish Minister of the Environment strongly criticizes the world climate summits. No one reacts officially, but everyone points out the inconsistencies. Article reserved for subscribers Deputy head of the Planet division By Michel De Muelenaere Published on 10/12/2023 at 7:09 p.m. Reading time: 2 min
It’s not the first nor the last. But, this time, the attack comes from a minister and not from moderately informed observers. Explaining her absence at COP28, the Flemish Minister of the Environment, Zuhal Demir (N-VA), described the United Nations climate summits – the COPs, the next in Dubai at the beginning of December – as “puppet theater”. Judging that the ministers who go there “mainly to take selfies and to have bilateral meetings”.
The Flemish minister’s last score in a COP dates from 2019 in Madrid, the opportunity for her to invent the concept of “coplaning”, an aerial avatar of carpooling. She explained that her trip helped fill empty seats on the plane. We haven’t seen her since. “We never see her in a COP (she also regularly skips meetings of European Ministers of the Environment, Editor’s note), so she knows nothing about it,” says a regular.
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