I once worked on contract for the UN secretariat on Biodiversity, which was (and no doubt still is) the poor cousin to Climate Change.

Two week meetings are standard there, which boggles the mind given that anyone who actually works would never go near such an event.

What’s more if you poke around, I’m sure you’ll find that a month or two before the mega two-week meeting there are smaller regional meeting where all the Asian countries get together and all the Africans and all the North and South Americans.

And since you can’t fly that easily within Africa they’ll go via Paris.

We also produced rooms full of documents no one read.

It was a complete waste of time, energy and resources, and completely soured me on the UN.