Participant numbers soar at COP31 while financial pledges fall 70%
Despite the big bloat in attendance at COP31, the Big Money is leaving the room, says Jo Nova.
92,000 Grifters and they still can’t change the weather…
More than 92,000 people have registered to turn up in Turkey for the annual UN Christmas party, sorry, I mean Conference of Parties, or COP31. They won’t all turn up, but it’s a measure of just how vast the climate-fear industry has become. And this is despite the United States sending no official delegation at all.
And this is no weekend event, the full program lasts two weeks. This is truly the Olympic-level junket. It’s a reward for all the career climate believers. It’s the Leadership Retreat for the top 80,000 sales reps, paid for, mostly, by the hapless taxpayers of the world.
Final numbers won’t be known until after the event, but at COP28 in Dubai, about 97,000 people registered to attend in person, and 84,000 actually turned up. If COP31 follows the same pattern, it will attract about 80,000 attendees. Think of how many flights this is, how many meals and hotel rooms. It’s a lot of money.
Money for Jam. It’s a great way to reward and motivate the underlings. Think of it like a Network Sales convention, except the customers get screwed.
Source: Carbon Brief
Despite the big bloat in attendance, the Big Money is leaving the room
The voters are finally starting to get a say. Supposedly the rich nations of the world were going to give $100 billion to poor nations through the UN, thank you very much.
Instead, the $40 billion tallies of a few years ago has shrunk to just $11.7 billion. US voters killed off the biggest contribution by electing Donald Trump, but nearly all the other pledges expired in 2025 and many have quietly not been renewed. Though sadly, the British are the last patsy left announcing a new pledge of £6bn over the next few years, plus £6.7bn from above and beyond the aid budget. The European Commission adds in another $4.5 billion every year roughly. “Lucky them.”
Australia hasn’t renewed its pledge, but is bound to toss money in this pot, since our Minister of Fog and Floods is co-hosting the event in Turkey. The UN know how to turn the psychological thumb-screws and Chris Bowen stepped right into the trap.
Climate-finance pledges fall 70% as countries meet at COP31
by Carbon Brief
The amount of public funding pledged to help developing countries tackle climate change has dropped by more than 70% in 2026, according to Carbon Brief analysis. Developed countries are required under UN climate treaties to provide “climate finance” and have traditionally announced multi-year pledges to feed into their global commitments. Most of these pledges expired in 2025 and, since then, the US has withdrawn from international climate efforts and many European aid budgets have been cut.
A civil-society tracker shows that only five nations have announced new multi-year pledges, including just one major donor – the UK.
Germany, France and Japan are among the key contributors that have so far failed to set out plans for new climate finance, while none is expected from the US. As a result, the total amount of public climate finance pledged over the next few years amounts to just $11.7bn a year in spending, down from recent levels of around $40bn.
There’s been a political shift in Germany and France which have provided €6 billion each in the past:
Germany and France, the two largest European climate-finance contributors, both pledged to reach €6bn ($6.8bn) per year by 2025. Neither has committed to anything beyond that.
Dr Anja Carolin Gebel, a senior policy advisor at Germanwatch, tells Carbon Brief that this issue has become more politically fraught since the centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) won the 2025 election and began leading a coalition government:
There has also been a political shift in France, Gaïa Febvre, international policy coordinator at Réseau Action Climat, tells Carbon Brief. She adds:
“The upcoming presidential election and the growing influence of the far right are likely to make new international financial commitments politically more difficult.”
Australia has previously given $3 billion dollars according to the Climate Finance Commitments Tracker from 2020 to 2025. Canada has paid $5 billion. Did any of that help a single sinking Pacific Islander, or was it all just grist for the mill for the globalist Blob?
It is unreal how large the climate parasite class is, and how they’ve got away with this for so long.
By the way, there’s no chance we could have staged an event this big in Adelaide — a city with only around 11,400 hotel rooms. Antalya is a tourist region in Turkey with 650,000 beds, and right now is low season in Turkey and turkey-season in Australia. We are being roasted. FOI documents revealed that even hosting 20,000 people in Adelaide for two weeks might require “displacing ongoing accommodation” and organisers even considered Floatels – or Cruise ships accommodation.
The UN would have known this all along.
This article was first published on joannenova.com.au on 12 November 2026.
Jo Nova
Jo Nova is science presenter, writer, speaker & former TV host; author of The Skeptic’s Handbook.
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