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Bristol mayor Marvin Rees explains decision to attend COP28 in Dubai three weeks after summit in Rwanda

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"We’re a Premiership city, we’ve got to behave like a Premiership city. If we’re a Premiership city but behave like we’re League Two, we’ll be demoted"

The mayor of Bristol has defended his decision to fly 3,500 miles to the COP28 Climate Change summit in Dubai, and said that Bristol ‘is a Premiership city that risks being relegated to League Two’ if he doesn’t go.

It will be the second trip abroad in the space of just a three weeks for Marvin Rees, who was in Rwanda for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting last week, at the same time the city council took the decision to evacuate 400 residents of Barton House over building safety concerns.
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In an exclusive interview, when Bristol Live put criticism of his work on the world stage, Mr Rees replied that he ‘gets it’, but added: “I just think it’s part of the job. But I get it. I get it takes a few steps to be able to understand that.”

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