{"id":6067,"date":"2024-11-20T15:21:53","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T15:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/?p=6067"},"modified":"2024-11-20T15:21:57","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T15:21:57","slug":"mnangagwa-with-largest-delegation-at-climate-change-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/?p=6067","title":{"rendered":"Mnangagwa with Largest Delegation at Climate Change Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br>Political Correspondent<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Emmerson Mnangagwa of Zimbabwe has sparked controversy by taking a massive delegation of 238 people to the 2024 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29) in Azerbaijan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This move has raised eyebrows, especially considering Zimbabwe&#8217;s current economic struggles and severe drought, which has left over half of its population in need of food aid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Delegation Size Comparison<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other countries have taken a more modest approach:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>South Africa, with a population of 60 million, is sending 51 delegates<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>France, 63 delegates<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mozambique, 78 delegates<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Botswana, 39 delegates<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Costs and Criticisms<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Zimbabwean government is paying each delegate a daily allowance of US$1,000 for five days, totaling $1.2 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, Mnangagwa&#8217;s private jet charter from Dubai cost over $200,000 for the round trip. The total cost of the five-day trip is estimated to be around $2 million, which could feed thousands of impoverished people back home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Summit Objectives<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite criticisms, Mnangagwa emphasized at the summit,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The time for half measures is over, and we all have a duty to implement our agreements.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The conference aims to establish the New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG) on climate finance, replacing the 2009 pledge to mobilize $100 billion annually for climate action in developing countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Zim GBC News\u00a92024<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political Correspondent President Emmerson Mnangagwa of Zimbabwe has sparked controversy by taking a massive delegation of 238 people to the 2024 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29) in Azerbaijan. This&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6068,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6069,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6067\/revisions\/6069"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}