Screwed up climate summit
After the extension there will be a lack of food, buses – and even toilet paper
Until Friday, the climate summit was well organized: shuttle buses, snack stands and clean toilets. That’s over today; after all, everything should have been negotiated long ago.
While politicians like German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock are still holding out to negotiate a final document, supply is slowly becoming difficult. Because the longer the UN climate conference in Baku drags on, the narrower the options available to those who discuss it there.
The generous offer of free shuttle buses from different parts of the city and its surroundings, which was generously provided during the regular conference time until Friday evening, was largely reduced to one route to the nearest metro station. However, the metro network is small and only covers parts of the Azerbaijani capital.
At the conference itself, restaurants and most of the snack stands spread across the extensive grounds remained closed on Saturday. Those that were still open sometimes only had a limited offering to choose from. Only coffee sales outlets were largely spared from the restrictions.
The sanitary facilities from the climate summit are hardly cleaned anymore
Toilet paper also became an increasingly rare commodity on Saturday mornings. In many places, paper towels were used as a replacement, and there were obviously more stocks of them. However, the cleaning of the sanitary facilities sometimes worked less well than before.
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However, there was no shortage of fresh drinking water. After there were significant bottlenecks in the extension phase at the UN conference in Sharm-el-Sheikh, Egypt, two years ago, particular attention was obviously paid to this. The conference in Baku was actually supposed to end on Friday evening, but may now even last until Sunday.
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Source: Stern
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