'Star' Wars

Actor, Harrison Ford, and the French President helped host a week-long International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) meeting in Marseille, France (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/sep/11/actors-scientists-and-giant-bees-a-week-tackling-natures-problems-in-marseille-aoe). The IUCN meeting had 4000 delegates. They included activists, politicians and scientists. This made it the world's largest conservation summit, since the start of the Covid19 pandemic. Concerns were specifically expressed about deep-sea mining. It seemed to be agreed that the pandemic, combined with increased understanding of environmental problems, had produced opportunities for getting action on biodiversity loses. It was also felt, however that there was very limited time for action. It seems likely that some of the arguments e.g. on who should pay, North versus South, how much land should be set aside for the natural world etc, will be revisited at COP26. I wonder what the carbon footprints of this IUCN meeting and COP26 will be combined?