COP28 climate summit offering multi-million pound sponsorship packages for exclusive access
By Paul Homewood
h/t Ian Magness
What a farce!
COP28, the climate change conference taking place in Dubai this year, is asking brands for millions of pounds to sponsor the event, promising that they will "benefit from access and unrivalled networking opportunities with governments and global business leaders".
The most expensive sponsorship package on offer costs £6.5m and provides the paying company with a "speaking opportunity in the COP28 UAE presidency events" and "partner recognition on the trophy wall" among other benefits, according to documents seen by Sky News.
In total, the climate conference is asking for in excess of £25m from companies to take advantage of its sponsorship packages, the documents show.
A senior corporate executive told Sky News: "A COP isn’t an event to make money. We are here to save the planet and minimise climate change, not to milk sponsorship opportunities.
"It belittles the entire event and people lose trust in the entire process."
Sponsorship prices have almost tripled since COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh last year, according to the executive, who has direct knowledge of the rates, reflecting the increasing commercialisation of the United Nations summit.
Hosted by the United Arab Emirates, this year’s event is already embroiled in controversy after reportedly hiring a former Boris Johnson aide who opposed an oil and gas tax, selecting senior oil industry executive Sultan al Jaber as its president, and inviting Syrian dictator Bashar al Assad, who is accused of crimes against humanity.
Image: Bashar al Assad has been invited to COP28
Every year, almost 200 countries meet to discuss how to jointly tackle the climate crisis and its impacts. Thousands of observers, civil society groups and media attend too.
COP stands for Conference of the Parties, referring to governments that have signed the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
Sponsors at last year’s event included Microsoft and Coca-Cola, the company named the world’s largest plastics polluter in the 2022 Break Free From Plastic’s global brand audit.
Sky sponsored COP26 in Glasgow in 2021.
Executives given chance to mingle with government officials
A petition calling on the organisers of the climate summit to stop seeking corporate sponsorship received nearly a quarter of a million signatures.
Brands which spent more than £3m on sponsorship at this year’s event will also receive accreditation for their executives to attend the talks and mingle with government officials.
The so-called Industry Partner package, which offers companies "an unparalleled opportunity to become a vital part of this important event for leading names in respective industries" and costs £3.2m, comes with five passes to the event.
Meanwhile, the Principal Partner package, which costs more than £6m, offers 25 UN-accredited passes for company executives to attend the talks.
The organisers of COP28 promise that the event’s principal sponsor will receive "privileged access" to the Blue Zone, the area reserved for world leaders, country negotiators, and NGOs (non-governmental organisations).
Also on offer is the chance to host a reception and an event, a perk not available to any of the lower tier sponsors.
Brands which partner with the event will also have the opportunity to display "presentations and activities featuring accomplishments across all areas of business" while "participants will be inspired to act on environmental issues that are increasingly impacting us today".
They will also "receive an array of benefits that showcase their market presence,” according to the documents.
When contacted by Sky News, the UN said sponsorship for COP28 was handled by the host country and directed press questions to the UAE.
Sky News has approached the UAE for comment.
I don’t know whether to laugh or laugh!
Clearly the climate scam is a great business opportunity. But I cannot wait to see what contribution Bashar al Assad makes!
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“partner recognition on the trophy wall”
Gamecock would rather be “DMV employee of the year.”
Well, the COPs are not much more than a circus and the hosts are probably quite right to make a bob or two out of the 28th jamboree.
You mean it is just one more dirty little “pay for access” scheme much loved by family members of a certain congenital liar living ( part time) on Pennsylvania avenue
These Parties for the Conferees are a joke. A company that pays any part of the £25m should be treated in the manner of Bud Lite. Further, a company that sends 25 company executives (UN-accredited passes) to such a party should face the wrath of shareholders and clients. Have they no better issues to attend to?
The more the merrier. Thoroughly discredit this jamboree.
Bring it on, the more these hypocrites sell the crazy net zero demands to the highest bidder, the sooner they will fail. Possibly the UAE are sabotaging COP 28, lets hope so!!
Let’s hope there are no companies stupid enough to give money to those who want to wreck the economy.
“The most expensive sponsorship package on offer costs £6.5m and provides the paying company with a “speaking opportunity in the COP28 UAE presidency events” ”
Perhaps we should have a GoFundMe campaign at WUWT, raise the money and book the speaking slot for a climate sceptic…..
Great idea. However GoFundMe might censor it. GiveSendGo is more reliable.
These meetings are very good for the Earth. They emit large amounts of valuable CO2 into the air. A hundred thousand tons of CO2 or more for each meeting. That is great for agriculture, resulting in fewer people starving.
Why don’t they have the COPs more often?
The greening of the Sahel.
Bashir Al Assad can say that population- reduction is a great way to combat climate change
To steal from an old Unix fortune file, “/earth is 97% full. Please delete anyone you can.”
Somebody who is an expert in crimes against humanity seems to be the ideal person to attend a UN global warming bunfight since that is what their plan is.
It always was all about money, not the science.
Given the number of delegates needing luxury hotel rooms and 5* catering, world leaders needing security etc. COP conferences must cost tens or more likely hundreds of millions of pounds to stage. Far better that they cover the cost through sponsorship than the UN or host nation paying and the cost ultimately being borne by taxpayers. If only the British government had done the same at COP26 in Glasgow, provided none of the money went to the lunatics in Holyrood.
Ideally, the entire scam would stop.
In the meantime the “climate”, “green” and “net zero” fanatics should pay the costs out of their own pockets.
>>Far better that they cover the cost through sponsorship