Bishop Hill COP this
Oct 25, 2015 I was reading Donna Laframboise the other day on the expected arrival of 40,000 delegates to the COP 21 conference to be held at the incongruously chosen venue of the private jet airport of le Bourget. I remembered seeing a breakdown of the horrendous costs of the Copenhagen conference and I idly wondered what the estimated costs are to be this time. Private finance has been sought apparently but there doesn't seem to much on offer anyway. What investors might expect to get out of it, I have no idea. Surely COP doesn't make a profit to be distributed to investors? Or does it?
But French taxpayers will be delighted to know the following:
€187 million budget
With a provisional budget of €187 million, the Paris climate conference will host some 40,000 delegates between 30 November and 11 December 2015.
The French government had initially hoped to fund the event with public money, and had estimated its cost at €179 million over three years in its 2015 budget bill.
The cost is divided between preparation for COP 21, follow-up activities (estimated at €20.5 million), hosting foreign delegations (€7.5 million) and practical organisation. This last category, at an estimated €151 million, is the most expensive, and includes the cost of renting and furnishing the Bourget conference centre, implementing security measures, and providing local transport...
...The French government finally agreed to call on the private sector to bankroll the climate conference to the tune of 20%, or around €40 million.
Local transport?- Bicycles or a brisk walk surely? TM
Bishop Hill
[Yes, I know it's Wiki, but....]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris%E2%80%93Le_Bourget_Airport#History
"In 1977, Le Bourget was closed to international airline traffic and in 1980 to regional airline traffic, but remains serving both domestic and international business aviation."
Reader Comments (62)
Le Bourget is where Lucky Lindy very publically landed the Spirit of St Louis in 1927.
Paris oldest airport was long ago turned into a big league convention center by the eponymous Air Show
You can bet that more delegates will land at de Gaulle or arrive by tgv.
"The French government finally agreed to call on the private sector to bankroll the climate conference to the tune of 20%, or around €40 million"
I am struggling to see why the private sector would want to invest any money at all in an event which, as far as I can tell, will produce no cashflow. At least not to the investors...
Peter Wilson:
An example would be "You get to be the exclusive provider of transportation to and from the conference," for the low low price of $20million. Charge whatever the participants will pay... There are probably lots of monopolies the government could create that the private sector would pay for.
James
Perhaps Moët Hennessy would like to chip in. They sponsored that magnificent man in his not-so-magnificent solar flying machine, and I'm sure there will be plenty of delegates chugging their product in Paris.
To be fair a lot of that money will indirectly be pumped into the Paris economy, given much shopping will be done as its close to Christmas , the high end hotels and restaurants will receive a boast has after all these people are used to the best and all those private jets , on cannot after all expect 'green' leaders to mix with ordinary folk , will need looking after .
And of course the need to print a on lots small mountain of dead tress in lots of languages , means there is money to be made in the publishing business.
Our Department has a social welfare budget of €125 million and there are 94 Departments.....numbered 1 to 95 in typical French fashion. (There is no 20...don't ask)
So the budget for the Parisite Climate Fest is not that much compared with the money the socialists are prepared to waste on a daily basis. As someone has said. Christmas shopping in Paris should feed some money into the economy. Nothing is too good for people who are saving the Planet, don't forget. It is just we ordinary mortals who must give up everything.
Why are people surprised that it would be expensive to hold a conference of parties?
Solar Impulse, the prototype for the catastrophically unfit for purpose Solar Impulse 2, was a flying exhibit at Le Bourget during the 2011 airshow. Presumably, had it succeeded in 2015 in carrying one pilot without his luggage around the World, Solar Impulse 2 would have been an exhibit at the coming COP21 party at Le Bourget in December. Solar Impulse 2 is supported by a massive, CO2-generating organisation including a hugely polluting IL76 cargo aeroplane like the one in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3z3ZducPWFQ
Make that IL-76
[Done. BH}
40,000 delegates. I calculate they must each get to speak for about 20 seconds. Hardly seems worth the effort to go
Presumably most of the delgates are there to lobby and to vote the way they have been told to..
Now they know how many *holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall
Lennon, McCartney et al