This whole is greater than 15,000 decrease than the record-breaking COP in Dubai final yr – and marks the primary time in seven years {that a} COP will not be bigger than its predecessor.
The figures are launched amid studies that quite a few world and business leaders are skipping the summit, whereas Papua New Guinea has pulled its delegation out fully.
Nonetheless, the scale of the Baku summit nonetheless seemingly outstrips main COPs of the previous, together with Copenhagen, Paris and Glasgow.
COP29 host Azerbaijan has the biggest delegation on the summit, with 2,229 individuals registered for badges. That is adopted by Brazil (1,914) and Turkey (1,862) with the second and third-largest delegations, respectively.
The United Arab Emirates (UAE), hosts of COP28 in Dubai, has the fourth-largest delegation (1,011) and China (969) has the fifth.
Whereas China’s delegation is smaller than at COP28 (when it was 1,296), each summits have seen a a lot bigger presence for the nation. For the ten COPs earlier than COP28, China’s common delegation of named individuals was round 100 individuals.
COP28 in Dubai final yr was the largest COP in an virtually 30-year historical past of summits – by far. Greater than 83,000 individuals attended the summit in individual, beating the earlier report of round 50,000 set in Sharm El-Sheikh in Egypt the yr earlier than.
The overall variety of registered delegates for COP29 in Baku clocks in at 66,778 – falling between the totals of the earlier two COPs. With 3,975 “digital” individuals, this takes the general provisional delegate whole for COP29 to 70,753. (That is near the 72,000 determine quoted by Azerbaijan’s president Ilham Aliyev in his opening deal with on the COP.)
Because the chart beneath exhibits, this bucks the latest pattern that has seen the scale of COPs enhance yearly for the reason that 16,000 individuals that travelled to Bonn, Germany, for COP23 in 2017.
It’s value noting that these are provisional figures, based mostly on the delegates which have registered for the summit. The UNFCCC will launch the ultimate figures – based mostly on individuals accumulating a bodily badge on the venue – after the summit has closed.
General totals for delegates from events, observers and the media for all COPs, as revealed by the UNFCCC. Information for COPs 1-28 are the “last” figures, whereas COP29 information is “provisional”. Chart by Carbon Transient.
This group provides as much as 17,680 delegates – second solely to COP28 in Dubai.
Ultimately yr’s COP, the participant lists revealed by the United Nations Framework Conference on Local weather Change (UNFCCC) – for the primary time – named each single individual that had registered for the summit (excluding help employees). Beforehand, COPs have sometimes included hundreds of “overflow” individuals during which nations and UN businesses might nominate delegates with out their names showing on their official lists.
The Baku summit continues this extra clear method, offering spreadsheets that identify all individuals.
For consistency with Carbon Transient’s evaluation of earlier COPs, the above chart contains overflow delegates as a single group. Nonetheless, the participant lists do divide the overflow delegates between events and observer teams. Together with the overflow numbers takes the overall for occasion representatives to 33,158.
The subsequent-largest group is that of observers from non-governmental organisations (NGOs), which totals 9,881 delegates. That is the third-largest whole in COP historical past (after the earlier two COPs).
Together with the NGOs, there are a number of different teams that fall into the class of “observer organisations” – reminiscent of these individuals representing UN our bodies, intergovernmental organisations, different businesses and enterprise representatives. These whole 2,377 registered delegates – or 3,204 when overflow badges are included.
Lastly, 3,575 media delegates have registered for COP29, a provisional whole that’s second solely to COP3 in Kyoto in 1997.
Host lead
As is widespread at COP summits, the biggest delegation at COP29 represents the host nation. Azerbaijan has registered a delegation – together with occasion overflow badges – of two,229.
It is a far cry from Azerbaijan’s tiny delegations of the previous. Earlier than COP28 in Dubai, Azerbaijan’s delegation amounted to a mean of six individuals.
The second-largest delegation comes from Brazil with 1,914 individuals. Brazil sometimes brings one of many largest delegations and this yr is not any exception. A considerable delegation from Brazil was additionally seemingly contemplating they are going to be internet hosting COP30 subsequent yr.
(It’s value noting that some nations allocate a few of their occasion badges to NGOs, which may artificially inflate the scale of their official delegation.)
The third-largest delegation comes from Turkey (1,892), adopted by UAE (1,011) and China (969). The remainder of the highest 10 includes Russia (900), Indonesia (810), Nigeria (634), Japan (595) and Kazakhstan (478).
Simply exterior the highest 10 is the UK in eleventh (470), in addition to the US (405) in sixteenth and Australia (394) in nineteenth.
Azerbaijan has seen the largest enhance in delegation dimension since COP28, rising by 995 individuals. That is adopted by Turkey (966 extra) and Russia (448).
The smallest delegations belong to Niger and San Marino (two), Nicaragua (three), and Andorra and North Korea (5).
Unsurprisingly, the biggest lower in delegation dimension is for UEA (dropping by 3,148). Subsequent is India (909) and France (649), whereas the US delegation has shrunk by 434.
Papua New Guinea has registered a delegation of 28, though prime minister James Marape introduced again in August that the nation wouldn’t be attending to “sign our protest on the large nations…for his or her lack of fast help to those that are victims of local weather change, and people of us who’re forest and ocean nations”.
Additionally, in accordance with the provisional participant lists, Afghanistan has not registered a delegation. Nonetheless, studies earlier this week steered that Taliban officers will attend as observers. Due to this fact, their invitation from COP hosts Azerbaijan could have come exterior the same old registration course of. Armenia and Myanmar are the opposite two events that haven’t despatched a delegation.
The map and desk beneath current the delegation dimension – cut up between occasion and overflow badges – for all of the nations registered for COP29. The darker the shading, the extra delegates that nation has signed up. Use the search field to seek out the information for a particular occasion.
Chart by Carbon Transient
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Gender cut up
The UNFCCC’s participant lists sometimes present a title – reminiscent of Mr, Ms, Sr or Sra – for every registered delegate. Up to now, this has allowed Carbon Transient to work out the steadiness of males to girls within the delegations that every nation has despatched to a COP.
(This evaluation at all times carries the caveat that the titles are designated by UNFCCC and never by Carbon Transient. As well as, Carbon Transient recognises that gender will not be greatest categorised utilizing a binary “male” or “feminine” label and appreciates that the UNFCCC’s lists is probably not wholly correct.)
Nonetheless, since COP28 final yr, the UNFCCC has began utilizing different titles that don’t point out gender – reminiscent of Dr, Prof, Ambassador and Honourable. Due to this fact, for this evaluation, these non-gendered titles – which make up round 150 names of greater than 17,000 within the checklist of occasion delegates – haven’t been included.
This provides a mean gender steadiness of occasion delegations of 60 per cent male to 40 per cent feminine.
Because the chart beneath exhibits, this makes COP29 essentially the most balanced COP in historical past. (Notice that, for consistency, the COP28 and COP29 figures solely embrace these on occasion badges, not overflow ones.
The common dimension of named occasion delegations (not together with overflows) for every COP, divided by male (orange) and feminine (purple) individuals. The traces present what proportion of the common delegation is male (orange) and feminine (purple). Information for COPs 1-28 collated from “last” participant lists revealed by the UNFCCC, whereas COP29 information relies on the “provisional” checklist. Notice that 145 delegates within the COP29 provisional checklist aren’t included as a result of there isn’t any data on their gender. Chart by Carbon Transient.
There are two all-male occasion delegations this yr – North Korea (5 delegates) and Niger (two delegates).
As well as, this yr, Carbon Transient’s evaluation reveals that the gender steadiness throughout all registered delegates – each in-person and digital – for COP29 is 59 per cent male to 41 per cent feminine.
The complete checklist of COP29 occasion delegation sizes could be discovered right here.
This story was revealed with permission from Carbon Transient.
