Had to use a wide angle lens for this one

Sponsors for the Business Pavilion include energy companies and a bank that is the leading financier of new oil and gas in the Amazon according to @stand.earth 6/

FYI Eight East African countries clubbed together to buy a far smaller space 5/

For some countries, take a guess at where the wealth to buy the meterage came from

This is Saudi Arabia - the second biggest oil producer in the world and one of the first pavilions you pass when you walk in the door… 4/

This is the pavilion for Chad

Chad was the country third hardest hit by climate change last year

Huge floods impacted impacted 2 million people and resulted in $380 million economic damage 2/

Day one at COP30 and my first impression is how directly wealth translates to square meter floorspace and flashy screens at the summit

Here is the pavilion for Malawi vs the pavilion for the UK 1/

Not a single farm declared emissions in their planning applications, despite obligation to assess all "significant" env impacts

If all the farms were approved it could generate emissions similar to 500k return flights from London to New York

The supply chain took us to Yara’s ammonia factory in Freeport, Texas – a city where residents face 22x the federally-accepted cancer risk due to industrial pollution

And on to the company’s flagship green fertiliser plant in Porsgrunn, Norway, following its much-celebrated launch last year

Just tried to use EJScreen - an EPA tool that provided data about environmental justice issues in local communities, like rates of cancer-causing air pollution and ethnic breakdown of local population

But it's no longer there- last available 21st January