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By Paul Homewood

Once again, courtesy of Josh and Net Zero Watch, let’s take a look at all of the “last chance to save the planet” warnings, which have populated every COP:

Bali, 2007

`Bali could be the last chance to avoid
the worst effect of global warming’ – New Zealand Herald, 3 December 2007

Poznan, 2008

`The world will “suicide” if it cannot
strike a strong climate pact soon’.
`[The summit is] the world’s last
chance to stop climate change before
it passes the point of no return’ – The Age, 9 December 2008

Copenhagen, 2009

`Copenhagen summit is last chance
to save the planet’ –  Lord Stern.
`Copenhagen Climate Talks are last
chance’ –  Gordon Brown

Cancun, 2010

`Jairem Ramesh, the Indian environment
minister, sees [the meeting] as
the `last chance’ for climate change
talks to succeed’ – Daily Telegraph, 29 November 2010

Durban, 2011

`…the World Council of Churches
general secretary, Reverend Dr Olav
Fykse Tveit, called the United Nations
UNFCCC COP 17 meeting a “last opportunity
for the international community
to be responsible in addressing
climate change”.’ – Christian Aid, 30 August 2011

Doha, 2012

`Tomorrow: the earth’s last chance
with climate change?’ – The Examiner, 25 November 2012

Warsaw, 2013

`Is the Warsaw Climate Change Conference
a last-chance summit? …
this summit could represent a turning
point in the fight against global
warming.’ – Sustainable Mobility, 14 November 2013

Lima, 2014

`Last chance: Change needed for climate
negotiations in Lima 2014…A
repeat performance next year would
be disastrous, not just for the progress
of these negotiations, but more importantly
for vulnerable communities
everywhere and the natural world on
which we all depend…‘ – WWF, 23 November 2013

.Paris, 2015

`The next climate summit in Paris
(COP21) may be the “last effective opportunity”
to negotiate arrangements
that keep human-induced warming
`to a limit safe for humanity, while
protecting the poor and the vulnerable
from ongoing climate change
that gravely endangers their lives’. – L’Osservatore Romano, 29 April 2015

Marrakesh, 2016

`Governments are drinking in the
“last chance saloon’ – Edie.net

Bonn, 2017

`The Bonn Conference may be our
last chance to get it right.’ – Vice, 5 May 2017

Katowice, 2018

`Katowice offers last chance to limit
warming to 1.5°C; countries must revise
national plans at the upcoming
climate conference’. – Down to Earth, 1 December 2018

Madrid, 2019

`UN climate change summit opens in
Madrid amid last chance warnings’. – City AM, 2 December 2019.

Glasgow, 2021

‘COP26 Glasgow: Climate summit is
world’s “last chance“ to aver disaster’. – The National, 9 August

‘“This is our last chance“: Biden urged
to act as climate agenda hangs by a
thread‘. – The Guardian, 18 October

Sharm, 2022

‘COP27 represents one of our last
chances to avert global catastrophe.‘ – The Observer, 30 October 2022

Dubai, 2023

COP28 is humanity’s last clear chance
to avoid a climate catastrophe – UN
chief. – Cleantechnica, 25th November 2023